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Growing Vegetables
A Comprehensive Guide on how to Establish,
Maintain and Manage a Vegetable Garden
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CONTENTS OF THE VIDEO/DVD
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Part 1
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Managing a Vegetable Garden
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Part 2
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Planning your Garden
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• Choosing a site for your garden (Click here for more information)
• Planning the layout of your garden
• Planning which vegetables to plant
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Part 3
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Preparation of the Seedbed
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• 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
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Part 4
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Sowing and Transplanting
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• 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
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Part 5
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Caring for the Garden
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• Fertilising practices
• Watering practices
• Controlling weeds
• Controlling diseases
• Controlling pests
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Part 6
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Harvesting
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