Crops
Tomatoes
- Hardening of tomato seedlings
- Tomato fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- Trellising and staking field grown tomatoes
- Planting time of field grown tomatoes
- Harvesting field tomatoes
- Solving the mystery of the two main types of tomato plants
- Field grown tomatoes – the basics
Green beans
- Green bean fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- Irrigation of green beans
- Green bean soil cultivation
- Inoculation of bean seed with nodule bacteria
- Green bean pests and how to control them
- Green bean micronutrients: requirements
- Green bean planting times
- Green bean seed germination
- How to fertilizer green beans (Bush beans)
- Green bean varieties
- How to control weeds in green beans
- Effect of salt stress on bush beans
- Bacterial diseases of green beans
- Virus diseases of green beans
- Fungal diseases of green beans
- Planting of green beans
- Basic horticulture of growing green beans
Pumpkins and Squash
- Butternut fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- The production of pumpkins and squashes
Lettuce
- Lettuce fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- Pests found commercial lettuce farming
- How to grow lettuce commercially
Peas
- Pea fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- Green pea soil preparation
- Treatment of seed with nodule bacteria inoculant
- Green peas climatic requirements
Carrots
- Is there a difference between commercial processing carrots and fresh bunching carrots.
- Carrot farming and production
- Carrot fertilizer application tables according to soil types
Chillies
- What can you do to reduce the burning effect of Capsaicin?
- What causes the burn sensation on your tongue from hot peppers.
- Are chilies the same as peppers
- What is the hottest jalapeno you can grow?
- Hot chilli virus diseases
- Hot chilli insect control
- Chillies diseases and their control
- Tips on harvesting dried hot chillies
- Small scale farming of chillies
Sweet potatoes
- sweet potato hawkmoth – Agrius convolvuli
- Blosyrus inaequalis beetle in sweet potato
- Sweet potato weevil (Cylas formicarius)
- Propagating, planting and harvesting sweet potatoes
- Sweet potato soil requirements
- Sweet potato farming – the basics
- Sweet potato fertilizer application tables according to soil types
Pigeon Peas
- Pigeon pea climatic requirements
- Nutritional value of pigeon peas
- Pigeon pea growth, harvesting and yields
- Pigeon peas – An alternative commercial crop
- How to plant Pigeon Peas – Cajanus Cajan
- Pest and diseases of pigeon peas
Beetroot
- Beetroot fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- Beetroot varieties
- Beetroot harvesting and marketing
- Beetroot weed control
- Irrigation of beetroot
- Sowing beetroot seed commercially
- Beetroot seed treatment
- How to grow beetroot – An introduction
Okra
Fertilizers
- Lettuce fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- Foliar fertilization – Is it worth it?
- Organic phosphorus and plant nutrition
- Butternut fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- Manure – a technical discussion
- Natural fertilizers for vegetables
- Beetroot fertilizer application tables according to soil types
- How to calculate the fertilizer requirements from soil analysis
- Nutrient uptake of vegetable crops and calculating fertilizer requirements
Pest and disease control
Insects
- sweet potato hawkmoth – Agrius convolvuli
- Blosyrus inaequalis beetle in sweet potato
- Sweet potato weevil (Cylas formicarius)
- Root knot nematode
- Beet cyst nematode (Hetrodera schachtii)
- Green bean pests and how to control them
- Fall armyworm – big threat to South African farmers
Marketing
- Substitution – Be aware so you don’t lose market share
- Marketing and the relative value of goods
- The life cycle of a product
- The marketing system
- Quality of vegetable crops
- Packaging and grading of vegetables
- Marketing of horticultural products
- Life cycle of a product
- Horticultural sectors
- Fresh produce marketing
Weeds
- Weed Control in Field Grown Tomatoes
- Weed Management and control
- Problems caused by weeds
- Classification of weeds
- Biology of weeds
- Advantages of weeds
- Weeds