| SEEDS | - Problem with buying seeds here that don't germinate
- Get variety from Canada or US
- My best source here is the chemical store in Joco across from the church
- Keep seeds in the freezer
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| SWEET CORN | - Get seed from up north
- When 2" high spray with raid
- When 1 ft high spray with metham, hill them up, fertilize with 17 17 17
- Then spray every 3 weeks with metham
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| ASPARAGUS | - Started from seed and had a plant in 1 yr.
- Then replant in a 1 1/2 ft deep hole, spreading the roots out, cover with soil and add soil up to ground level as the plant grows
- No fertilizer
- Needs lime twice a year
- Susceptible to fungus, use a fungicide
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| CUCUMBER | - In a deep hole put manure then soil and then plant seeds
- Put 4" of soil on top of the seeds
- Plant under a screen
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| SQUASH | - Start and plant same as cucumbers
- Gets white fly, spray with raid 3 to 4 days in a row
- Don't spray when there are flowers
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| YAMS | - Do not plant in cold weather, Dec to Mar
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| BEANS | - More exotic types susceptible to white fly
- Ordinary variety need almost no care
- Fertilize with 17 17 17
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| SUGAR SNAP PEAS | - Very easy, grow up on a wire frame
- Fertilize with 17 17 17
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| TURNIP, BEETS, CARROTS | - Very easy
- Prepare the soil with diazanon
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| TOMATOES | - Not much luck but trying again
- This time preparing the soil with diazanon, planting in plastic with holes
- Use fungicide weekly until fruit appears
- Fertilize with 20 20 20
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| FRUIT TREES | - Plant at ground level and water daily for 1 week
- Then water weekly
- Every 6 months spray with malathion
- Prune on the inside to open up the tree
- Insufficient water - dry fruit
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| MANGO, FIG AND PAPAYA |
- Susceptible to fungus
- Spray for 3 weeks in a row when fungus appears with a fungicide
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| BANANAS |
- No fertilizer but use compost
- Need good drainage
- Lots of water
- When stalk forms and appears to have as many bananas as you want, cut off the flower and cut all but 1 banana off the last hand of bananas
- Thin trees to 1 new plant after harvesting bananas, cut trunk high and leave to feed the new plant
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