What is healthy soil and how to establish it (Chapters 1 – 4)

• How healthy soil differs from unhealthy soil
• The difference between organic and medicinal organic methods
• Your dead soil can be turned into healthy soil
• What is needed to build healthy soil
• Healthy soil grows healthy vegetables

The plants and your body can only function healthily when the balance is restored in nature and the method by which plants absorb their minerals.

The production of healthy compost (Chapters 5 – 7)

What does good compost consist of?

• The difference between good compost and bad compost
• The organisms food network
• What is earthworm compost?
• Compost vs earthworm compost
• How to correct poor compost
• The place of kraal manure in the vegetable garden
• What is Humus?
• The purpose of mineralization in the cultivation of healthy food
• How to correct unhealthy soil within weeks
• Aerobics compost tea vs compost tea

HEALTHY VEGETABLES MODULE TEN: PLANT HEALTHY VEGETABLES WITH AEROBIC SOIL ORGANISMS R150How can the farmer and gardener save + 60% cost on input costs while optimizing mineralization and improve production by 50 – 150%.With corrections made to the Soil Food Network, the gardener can cut out all pests and plant diseases. It is because of imbalance in the soil food network that we get plant diseases and pests.Learn how to make highly productive compost produce and correct the incorrect methods of aerobic compost extract and tea distinguish from each other. Cut out all fertilizer and pest control from your cultivation process.(Chapters 27 – 34)● The difference between aerobic and anaerobic soil organisms ● Mineralization without fertilizer ● Higher hierarchy of plants ● Carbon sequestration ● Where does the vegetable gardener start? ● Aerobic compost ● Compost Extract ● Aerobic compost tea

Growing summer vegetables in your garden should not be a nightmare, even for beginner gardeners. Arina Duvenhage put together the Healthy Vegetable course book. The Healthy Vegetable course is for fellow gardeners, from beginner to expert. This course was divided into 10 modules, with module 8 covering summer vegetables. It answers the question what to grow in your summer vegetable garden and how.

The summer vegetables in module 8:

• Corn
• Tomatoes
• Cucumber
• Patty Pan
• Pumpkin
• Baby marrows
• Bell Pepper
• Chillies
• Coriander (Cilantro)
• Lettuce
• Spinach
• Cabbage
• Spring onion
• Chives
• Fennel
• Eggplant (Brinjal)
• Rocket
• Dill
• Basil

For each summer vegetable, Arina explains what type of plant each vegetable is, which season, germination temperature, and what seed method should be used for planting and growing each vegetable.

The module also gives guidance on the germination period, where to plant the vegetable, which months to plant it and which companion plants to include for each vegetable. The ebook module contains a pictorial companion plant A-Z to make identifying companion plants easy.

When discussing growing your own summer vegetables, pests and plant diseases cannot be left out. We have included the most common pests and plant diseases specific to each vegetable plant in your summer vegetables. Pictures were included for easy identification of these pests and diseases too. Examples of common pests include whitefly, aphids, worms, and beetles. Plant diseases include fusarium stalk rot on corn, blight on tomatoes, mildew on pumpkins, and so on. With these identifiers, guidance on pest and plant disease prevention is included in the module.

Garden of Eden Garden School’s approach to gardening, vegetables, fruits, or flowers is rooted in soil health. As such, module 8 specifies the type of soil needed for each vegetable and covers soil conditions. If you would like to learn more about soil health and/or soil organisms, please see our modules on soil, Module 2 and Module 10.