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2.1 Crop Establishment
Agriculture · Grade 7 · 9 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Meaning of crop establishment and planting site (tilth) in a kitchen garden or 4K club plot
- Planting materials: small seeds, medium seeds, and large materials (tubers, suckers, cuttings)
- Matching planting-material size to tilth: fine, medium and coarse
- Preparing a planting site to the chosen tilth, with safe use of tools
- Planting selected material into the matching tilth and caring for the crop
What you will be able to do
- determine appropriate tilth for selected planting material
- prepare a suitable tilth for establishing selected planting material
- adopt appropriate tilth in establishing a selected planting material
Key questions
“How does planting material determine planting site preparation?”
Lessons
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Crop establishment in the kitchen garden
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizCrop establishment is preparing a planting site and putting planting material into it so a crop can start well in a kitchen garden or 4K club plot.
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Observing planting materials
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPlanting materials are small seeds, medium seeds, or large pieces such as tubers, suckers and cuttings; observation of size comes before digging.
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What tilth is and why size matters
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizTilth is how fine or coarse the soil crumbs are; small seeds need fine tilth, medium seeds medium tilth, and large materials coarse tilth.
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Fine tilth for small seeds
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizFine tilth is soil broken to small crumbs and raked level so tiny kitchen-garden seeds touch moist soil.
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Medium tilth for medium seeds
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizMedium tilth is small crumbs that can cover maize, beans or cowpeas a few centimetres deep without powder or large clods.
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Coarse tilth for large materials
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizTubers, suckers and cuttings need a loose, cloddy (coarse) tilth so air can reach the piece; powdery soil can rot them.
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Preparing the planting site safely
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPrepare a site in order: clear, dig, match tilth, level; use jembe and rake with space and handle-first passing.
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Planting into the matching tilth
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPlace each material at a fitting depth in the tilth you prepared: thin cover for small seeds, a shallow hole for medium seeds, a fitted hole for large pieces.
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Adopting appropriate tilth
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizAdoption means the 4K club or kitchen garden keeps using the matching tilth, cares for the crop, and can explain why the material chose the bed.