February has arrived and as a vegetable gardener, you are likely ordering seeds and making plans for your garden for the coming growing season. One factor to consider when planning your vegetable ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

We ask a lot of our gardens: Brilliant flowers, productive vegetables, pest-free plants and fertile soil. To get these lush results, sometimes we need to employ more than just water and compost. Crop ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You grew tomatoes successfully in that sunny corner of your garden last year, so why shouldn’t you plant this year’s seedlings in the same spot? It’s ...

Although crop rotation is practised widely in Europe, notably for the control of crop pests, diseases and invasive weeds, monocultures[1] still dominate in Africa and Southern Asia. Elsewhere, ...

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two ...