Growing from Seed
Saving seed from a biennial crop takes a second season
Saving seed from carrots and other biennial crops requires planning beyond the harvest season. Leave suitable plants, protect them through winter and consider pollination.
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Growing from Seed
Thousand-grain weight turns a seed bag’s kilograms into a useful count
Thousand-grain weight helps translate seed mass into an approximate seed count, but germination and establishment still need separate attention.
Growing Vegetables
Onion bolting starts a different job for the plant
A flower stalk changes an onion crop’s priorities. Recognise bolting, record the conditions and avoid treating affected bulbs as ordinary storage onions.
Crop observation
Catfacing on a tomato begins while the fruit is still forming
Recognise the distorted blossom-end growth called tomato catfacing and keep useful crop notes before deciding what to change next season.
Fruit Growing
A mango seed can produce seedlings with different genetic origins
Several shoots from one mango seed can reflect polyembryony. Understand what that means before promising the seedling will reproduce a named fruit variety.
Growing Vegetables
Trap crops need a plan for the pests they attract
Explore what makes trap cropping different from simply mixing plants, and how pest identification, scouting and a management plan determine whether it helps.