Vegetables

'Sunlight is the ultimate limiting factor. Water and nutrients will only optimise the limits set by day length.'

'Transplant shock will make the plants bulb at a small size, or go into hibernation.'

'Anybody can deliver to a market at any time - be it one unit or thousands.'

'Stick to what you know and make changes gradually over a few seasons,' writes Bill Kerr.

'Five buyers for an entire industry simply doesn't add up in a free market scenario,' writes Mike Cordes.

To many farmers and home gardeners, crop rotation is a holy grail – they’ll never plant the same crop consecutively in the same ground.

There’s nothing worse than not having success with your first crop, so choose one that is cheap and easy to grow. In other words, choose cabbage.

Last week I mentioned that halo blight thrives in cooler conditions and spreads very rapidly in wet ones.

Numerous failings within South Africa's land reform programme, and the uncertainties this is causing, have resulted in no new investment taking place on existing litchi farms.

For years I've been carrying on about the importance of using a fresh-produce commission market properly if you want it to work for you, so let's take a look at...

Downy mildew is less of A problem in cabbage than it used to be. With resistant varieties available, susceptible varieties don't have to be planted in vulnerable areas any more.

The late Peter Venter captured the essence of fresh-produce markets when he said, "When a country needs to import most of its fresh produce, then it doesn't require markets to...