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This comprehensive guide to vegetable gardening in South Africa, written especially for the home gardener, is based on vast practical experience and an intimate knowledge of local growing conditions. Part 1 provides down-to-earth advice on location and layout of the vegetable gaarden;soils and nutrients; garden planning and crop rotation; tools and equipment; watering; cultivation and weed control; seed, sowing, transplanting, harvesting, and pests and their control; container growing, and the use of plastics in the vegetable garden. In part 2 the common as well as a number of unusual vegetables are fully discused. Invaluable information on cultivars, soil preparation, propagation, sowing, transplanting, harvesting, and pests and diseases are included. This is followed by short descriptions of the more widely used culinary herbs. Finally, the appendices give information on how to grow salad sprouts, and detailed and invaluable advice on exhibiting vegetables. Whether your garden is a smallholding or a townhouse patio, "The A - Z of Vegetable Gardening in South Africa" is an essential handbook containing everything you need to know for the successfull production of your own top-quality vegetables throughout the year.
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Book Description 280 x 215 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 153, incl. index; line drawings; colour photographs. Fine condition. "This comprehensive guide to vegetable gardening in South Africa, written specially for the home gardener, is based on practical experience and intimate knowledge of local growing conditions. . The text is complemented by colour photographs and over 200 line drawings, many of which illustrate the more important or unusual cultural practices described by the author. Whether your garden is a smallholding or a townhouse patio, The A-Z of Vegetable Gardening in South Africa is an essential handbook containing everything you need to know for the successful production of your own top-quality vegetables throughout the year.". Seller Inventory # 10018
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