Signs of maturity in vegetables and tubers
Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How to tell tomato, kale, cabbage and Kenyan tubers are ready, including breaker colour, leaf size, skin set and why late is not always more food.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Meaning and importance of harvesting
- Factors that determine harvesting
- Signs of maturity in cereals
- Signs of maturity in vegetables and tubers
- Pre-harvest practices
- Harvesting methods and tools
- Harvesting maize and other cereals
- Harvesting tomato, kale and tubers
- Post-harvest handling
- Post-harvest losses