GROWING VEGETABLES – AND GUINEA FOWL

Town brings in Guinea fowl to control tick population

I would never have believed that Guinea fowl could be useful around vegetable gardens.

There are only three things I know about Guinea fowl:

1. They are pretty
2. Initially, I had only seen them portrayed on quilts, pottery and toys
3. Then in June 2012 I saw them “in the flesh” for the first time – and they were disciplining a recalcitrant member of their posse.

But at lunch with a friend at Ninos coffee shop one day I turned to Mary and said, “You are famous. Your veggie bathtub is on the internet.”

Johannesburg Zoo

This set off a discussion on vegetable gardening and pest control, and soon Mary was telling us that the Johannesburg Zoo keeps Guinea fowl to reduce the rat population and insects.

I was fascinated by this snippet. Rats can play havoc with your vegetable garden.
I know that lemon mint repels rats.
But this was the first time I had heard that Guinea fowl kill them.

Conversation turned to stopping snails in their tracks with coffee grounds and crushed eggshells, only to learn that Mary, having worked at the Johannesburg Zoo for 26 years, collected vegetable devouring snails from her garden and put them in a tub in her fridge freezer! As soon as she had a goodly amount, out came the tub of snails which she took to feed the birds at the zoo.

Back to vegetable gardens and Guinea fowl
You will be pleased to know that this bird is very useful in your garden.

• It seldom, if ever, bothers your vegetables or flowers; living instead on insects and grasses.
• They control deer ticks, wood ticks, grasshoppers, box elder bugs, flies crickets, and all other insects.
• Apart from eating mice and small rats, their noisy call will actually discourage rodents.
• They also kill snakes, and,
• if you are security conscious, they will alert you to anything unusual going on, on your property (perhaps neighbours who may covet your vegetables in the deep of night?)

So, give it a thought – if you are struggling to control pests and insects in and around where you are growing vegetables, get yourself a posse of Guinea fowl.

You can actually train them to come when you call.

And if you have a problem with bees, hornets or wasps, all you have to do is show it where the insects congregate, and you’ll be able to move around your garden without fear of being stung – the Guinea fowl will do the rest.

A wonderful addition to your vegetable garden, don’t you think?

GROWING VEGETABLES – eBOOK AND VIDEO PACKAGE

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1. Firstly, Food4Wealth is a sustainable, ecological vegetable growing model, professionally produced by the environmental scientist, Jonathan White
2. It is extremely easy to read and easy to understand.
3. The Food4Wealth model will show you how to setup your own organic food garden completely.
4. You will be taken through the entire process of growing your own vegetables in in a very small amount of space – for just a few hours effort. 

• His Food4Wealth ebook contains 80 pages
• and 60 minutes of videos.

The Key Principles of the Ecological Gardening Method

1. Plant densely
2. Plant a diversity of plants within a given area
3. Get a good composting system set up and use the compost as a surface mulch on bare patches
4. Allow some plants to go to seed
5. Only interfere with the system when a single species of plant over-dominates and simply scratch out excess plants when they are small. 

His vegetable growing package also includes:

• project plans
• checklists
• a maintenance plan
• materials list
• provides detailed tips, tricks and techniques to grow organic food successfully 
• email support with all replies sent within 24 hours.

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GROWING VEGETABLES – THE “COMPANION PLANTING” WAY

Margaret Roberts’ passion for growing vegetables and herbs is clearly evident in the way she writes in her book titled, “Companion Planting.”

Each herb and vegetable is introduced with a short history of the plant, its culinary, medicinal and pest repellent properties. She has trialed each and every entry in her many books, and pioneered organic methods before the word “organic” was ever coined.

There is so much to garner from her books.

The first book I bought I gave to a Chief in Kanyama, Mwinilunga District, Zambia. I could not do without my own copy for along, so, I bought another copy – and was robbed!.

So I bought a third copy.

As you can tell, I am passionate about growing vegetables the Companion Planting way. There is much information to be culled from it. For instance, I set up two Excel schedules: one reflected the medicinal properties of the herbs and the ailments it can either relieve or cure. The other dealt with herbs that could control pests.

Margaret Roberts also provides recipes for sprays to protect your vegetables and herbs, and provides references to herbs that break down compost.

In her book, “The Essential Margaret Roberts, my 100 Favourite herbs,” she outlines how to plan a herb garden, propagation of vegetables plants, and much-much more.

For more information on Margaret Roberts Herbal Centre, click here.

ARE THERE PROBLEMS WITH TRADITIONAL VEGETABLE GARDENING?

PROBLEMS NEED SOLUTIONS

• Traditional vegetable gardens require an enormous amount of hard work.
  It takes a lot of time, dedication and a year-round commitment
  to grow your own food the traditional way.
• Then there are bare patches in your patch.
  To an ecologist, this is a niche space for colonizers …
  weeds…that deprive your vegetables of nutrients.
• Not only do they deplete nutrients, but, it takes too much time
  to attend to weeding when you could be doing something else

HOWEVER, THERE IS A SOLUTION! We must use a technique that combines – PEST,  PLANT & SOIL ecology plus CROP MANAGEMENT into a method that addresses the causes of these problems.  The technique must be efficient enough to be economically viable, and produce enough food, per given area, to compete against traditional techniques.

Jonathan White, an environmental scientist has been testing an ecologically-based method of growing food for several years.  This method promotes zero tillage zero chemicals has minimal weeds, and requires a fraction of the physical attention (when compared to traditional vegetable gardening). It also produces several times more, per given area, and provides food every single day of the year.

His ecologically-based garden mimics nature in such a way that the garden

• looks and acts like a natural ecosystem.
• Succession layering of plants (just as we see in natural ecosystems) offers natural pest management.
• It also naturally eliminates the need for crop rotation
• Naturally eliminates the need resting beds
• Naturally eliminates the need for green manure crops

Soil management is addressed in a natural way – so the soil’s structure and fertility gets richer and richer, year after year.

Another benefit of this method is automatic regeneration through self-seeding. This occurs naturally as dormant seeds germinate, filling empty niche spaces with desirable plants, and not weeds.

Traditional gardeners need convincing. So here’s the deal:
This ecologically-based method requires such little human intervention you may become frustrated with not having much to do in your vegetable garden. There! I’ve said it. But it’s true. In this ecologically based method nature will take the reins, and in your experience you will find that nature’s ecological laws are one hundred per cent reliable.

This method of growing your vegetables takes away all the mysticism of being an expert.  It is so simple, any person, under any conditions, can do it.  

THIS LEADER IN VEGETABLE

GARDENING

…produces many times more food with a fraction of the effort.

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PROBLEMS WITH TRADITIONAL VEGGIE GARDENING