Irrigation water tests quantify water pH and salinity, as well as the amount of sodium and bicarbonates in your irrigation water. All these things can limit plant growth and, at high enough levels, even poison your crops.
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Cover crops will have an important role for us in Kenya, especially in terms of weed control and input cost reduction, but farmers need patience and an independent mindset to understand how to make them successful. I’m not sure entirely what cover cropping will look like for us yet, but improved Mallow control, lower fertiliser […]
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Faba Beans look very exciting on the right soil types. Thinking back to the UK, I was always struck at how Peas and Fabas thrived on alternate soil types, and that may be the case here in Kenya too; where peas are inconsistent, we perhaps need to give fabas a serious go. Peas Faba Beans […]
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I recently purchased a bag of what I thought was lime recently to use on trials, only to discover that it was actually gypsum. I included it in the trial anyway out of curiosity, and it got me thinking, why don’t we think about gypsum more often? Essentially calcium sulphate, gypsum contains two very important […]
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