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Mango Growing Guide

Mango Growing Guide

Mangoes flood the markets every summer with their bright red and yellow colors, full of sweetness and tangy flavors. Mangoes are a huge industry for many countries especially India where many more mango varieties reside. Australian markets are dominated by a select few varieties such as the well renowned R2E2

Tomato growing Guide

Tomato growing Guide

Tomato is a crop I have studied for years and get a lot of joy yielding high quality, tasty, and long lasting produce. They're incredibly easy and a few plants is enough to feed a family plus some more. For a crop they're profitable, provide good

Foot and mouth disease

Foot and mouth disease

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) has been a virus that exists, affecting cloven hoofed livestock such as cattle, sheep, pigs, deer, and goats. This virus does not affect horses as they are equine. This virus is highly contagious and can persist in soil and surfaces for long extended periods of

Managing Alkaline Soils

Managing Alkaline Soils

Alkaline soils in Western Australia are generally found along the limestone coastline where more carbonates can be abundant in the soil. According to GRDC, about 24% of Australian land is affected by alkaline soils making this a fairly common problem. Unfortunately there is no hard and fast rule to adjust

Managing acidic soils

Managing acidic soils

Ameliorating and managing soils you suspect are prone to soil acidity.

Microbes, manure and a cow's horn

Microbes, manure and a cow's horn

Bacteria and fungi are becoming more and more relevant to growing. Here is an introduction into the world of microbes.

Organic Crop Protection

Crop Protection

Organic Crop Protection

Passing by your crop or backyard vegetable garden and you notice the leaves getting black or white spots, there are bite marks on the side of the leaves and webs on the underside too. Most growers will look away and ignore the warning signs that there is a disease growing

Understanding Soil Analysis Results

Plant Nutrition

Understanding Soil Analysis Results

I Encourage growers to take soil samples to send of to a lab to be analyzed every year before the beginning of the growing season. The reason behind this is because it allows us to identify any nutrients that may be deficient, to know if we need to apply lime

Beneficial Bugs

Beneficial Bugs

There are all kinds of pests that will eat your crops, there are aphids, mites, scales, and more! However, have you ever heard of beneficial bugs? Fortunately, if something lives then there is probably something else that eats it and that is exactly what beneficial bugs are, they're

Bugs, Grubs, and Insects

Bugs, Grubs, and Insects

There are numerous creatures out there that will eat your crop and harvest, they will get to your ripe tomato before you, they will hide under leaves while sucking away your crops life, and they can be so small that you don't even notice that they're

Water and plants

Water and plants

Watering would appear to be the simplest task when it comes to growing plants. We have readily accessible water straight out of our tap that is clean, low in salts and disease free. However, probably the easiest blunder to fall into is providing too much or too little water to

Understanding soil pH

Understanding soil pH

Potential hydrogen or more commonly known as pH, is a unit the measures how acidic (low pH) or alkaline (high pH) a solution is. When it comes to farming or your plants soil pH it is important to know because it can influence how available nutrients in the soil can

Plant Nutrition

Plant Nutrition

Plant Nutrition

Plant nutrition! Plants need all kinds of nutrition to grow effectively and just like a people a balanced diet provides the best performance, the best quality produce and the most resistant plants to stresses from pests, diseases, heat waves or water logging. Nutrition is most commonly talked about as the