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Growing Vegetables: Training course
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Full colour R180,00; Black and white R150,00
PLUS R45,00 postage (Speed Services)
Videos
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Volume 1 (84 minutes)
Volume 2 (220 minutes) R500,00
DVD's
in three volumes: R500,00
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Growing Vegetables
A Comprehensive Guide on how to Establish,
Maintain and Manage a Vegetable Garden
CONTENTS OF THE VIDEO/DVD
Part 1
Managing a Vegetable Garden
Part 2
Planning your Garden
• Choosing a site for your garden (Click here for more information)
• Planning the layout of your garden
• Planning which vegetables to plant
Part 3
Preparation of the Seedbed
• Soil requirements
• Improving your soil
• Backyard composting
• Preparing your soil for a compost trench bed
• Building raised beds
• Cultivating your soil for a traditional row vegetable garden
• Building a veggie patch for kids
Part 4
Sowing and Transplanting
• Factors that influence germination
• Sowing seed directly in beds
• Sowing seed in seedtrays
• Transplanting of seedlings
• Growing vegetables in containers
• Rotation planting
• Interplanting
• Succession planting
• Cultivars
• Companion planting
Part 5
Caring for the Garden
• Fertilising practices
• Watering practices
• Controlling weeds
• Controlling diseases
• Controlling pests
Part 6
Harvesting
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