3 DIVERSIFY CROPS Home Gardening and Nutrition Training Material Increasing the variety you get from your homestead garden.

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3 DIVERSIFY CROPS Home Gardening and Nutrition Training Material Increasing the variety you get from your homestead garden

1. Different groups of vegetables Legumes: beans, peas, etc. Roots: carrot, beetroot, turnip, etc. Leafy: spinach, lettuce, swiss chard, radish, rape, etc. Solanacae: peppers, tomato, chilli, eggplant etc. Bulbs: onion, garlic, etc. Tubers: potato, sweet potato, etc. Cucurbits: pumpkin, butternut, cucumber, etc. Brassicas: cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.

2. Crop planting calendar To achieve better yields, you need to know the optimum planting time for each kind of vegetable crop depending on Lesotho’s agro-ecological zone. See figures below and in the following slide

2. Crop planting calendar

3. Fruit tree growing and care 3. a. Planting fruit trees 1. Dig a hole that is 1m x 1m square and 1m deep. Prepare a soil mix. ! Do NOT put Soil mix: Mix top soil with sub soil and add well decomposed manure or compost. 2. Prune off roots that are dry, broken, discoloured or too long. fertiliser directly in hole as it may burn tender roots. Deciduous trees and vines can be planted any time during their dormant season. Planting trees in summer is not recommended.

3. a. Planting fruit trees 3. U se the soil mix you prepared to fill the bottom of the hole. Place the tree in the hole. 4. Fill the hole with the soil mix and firm the soil around the tree. Add organic mulch on top of the soil- filled hole. 5. Cut the young tree to about 60cm. Remove all the side branches.

8. Spacing: fruit trees should be planted 3m apart to ensure enough nutrients and light for good fruit development. 3. a. Planting fruit trees 6. Make a watering basin about 1m in diameter. Water tree with about 2 x 20 litre bucket. 7. Re-check planting depth. If trees have settled too deep, gently lift them by lower trunk until they are raised to proper height.

3. b. Watering and feeding fruit trees Young trees: 2x20 L buckets of water every 2-3 weeks. You can add organic fertiliser throughout the growing season. Fruit bearing trees: Add 3x20 L buckets every 2 weeks (especially during blossoming and fruit maturation). You can Drip irrigation: make 4 tiny holes at bottom of empty containers; partially bury the empty container into ground next to tree roots. Fill the containers with water once a week or as needed. add fertiliser only during spring and after fruit harvest.

3. c. Pruning fruit trees General fruit tree pruning instructions: 1. Prune in winter, when trees are dormant. 2. Prune out all branches originating from the base of the tree (suckers) or tender straight twigs originating inside the tree canopy (water sprouts).

Methods of pruning stone fruit trees and pome fruit trees are different. 3. c. Pruning fruit trees 3. Stone fruit trees should form a vase shape allowing light and air circulation. 4. Pome fruit trees should maintain a central leader or triangular shape (taller than stone fruit trees).