• A Subject Guide
• Accompanying Notes
• Vegetable Manual
• Soils & Nutrition Booklet
• Pests & Diseases Booklet
• 16 Hydroponic Ideas Leaflet
• Irrigation Notes
• Greenhouse Management Booklet
• Weeds Manual
• Growool Leaflets
• List of Seed Merchants
• Growing Vegetables by Mason & Lawrence

1. Introduction to Vegetable Growing
2. Cultural Practices For Vegetables
3. Pest, Disease & Weed Control
4. Hydroponic & Greenhouse Growing
5. Growing Selected Vegetable Varieties
6. Irrigation
7. Harvest & Post-Harvest
8. Marketing Vegetables

• Select appropriate vegetable varieties for different situations.
• Explain general cultural practices used for vegetable production.
• Explain the management of potential problems, including pests, diseases, weeds, and environmental disorders, in vegetable production.
• Explain alternative cultural techniques, including greenhouse and hydroponic production, for vegetables.
• Determine specific cultural practices for selected vegetable varieties.
• Determine the harvesting, and post-harvest treatment of different vegetables.
• Develop marketing strategies for different vegetables.

• Compile a resource file of forty sources of information regarding vegetable varieties.
• Describe the classification of different vegetables into major groups.
• Prepare an herbarium collection of twenty-five different vegetable varieties.
• Determine three appropriate cultivars from each of five different species of vegetables to be grown on a specified site.
• Prepare a planting schedule of vegetable varieties, to be planted over a twelve month period, in your locality.
• Differentiate between soil management practices for ten different vegetable varieties.
• Explain the establishment of vegetables by seed.
• Explain how to establish three different vegetables from seedlings.
• Prepare a table or chart showing the planting distances, and planting depth of seed for at least forty different vegetable varieties.
• Describe the application of pruning techniques to the production of three specified vegetables.
• Prepare a crop schedule (ie. production timetable) for a specified vegetable crop.
• Prepare a pressed weed collection of at least twenty different weeds.
• Differentiate between eight different specific techniques for weed control in vegetable crops, including different chemical and different non-chemical methods.
• Determine pest and disease problems common to ten different specified types of vegetables.
• Identify appropriate control methods for the pest and disease problems you determined (above).
• Develop pest and disease control programs, for the lifespans of three different vegetables.
• Determine the environmental disorders occurring with vegetable crops inspected by you.
• Explain the methods that can be used to prevent and/or overcome five different environmental disorders affecting vegetables.
• Determine the potential benefits of greenhouse vegetable production in a specified locality.
• Differentiate between the characteristics of different types of greenhouses.
• Compare vegetable growing applications for different environmental control mechanisms used in greenhouses, including:
  • Different types of heaters
  • Shading
  • Lighting
  • Different types of coolers
  • Vents
  • Fans
• Describe how a specified commercial vegetable crop might be grown in a greenhouse visited by you.
• Compare vegetable growing applications for the major types of hydroponic systems
  • Open and closed systems
  • Aggregate
  • Water
  • Aeroponic culture
• Determine reasons for choosing to grow vegetables in hydroponics rather than in the open ground.
• Explain how a specified vegetable can be grown in an hydroponic system.
• Determine two commercially viable varieties suited to growing in a specified locality, from each of the following different types of vegetables:
  • Brassicas
  • Cucurbits
  • Tomatoes
  • Lettuce
  • Onions
  • Potatoes
  • Legumes
• Determine specific cultural requirements for growing each of the vegetable varieties selected (above) on a specified site.
• Describe the culture of three less commonly grown vegetables chosen by you.
• Produce a log book, recording all work undertaken to grow a crop of eight different vegetable varieties, suited to your locality.
• Describe five different harvesting methods, including both manual and mechanical techniques, used in vegetable production, for specified vegetables.
• Identify the appropriate stage of growth at which fifteen different types of vegetables should be harvested.
• Evaluate four commonly used harvesting techniques of vegetables, observed by you.
• Evaluate four commonly used post-harvest treatments of vegetables, observed by you.
• Determine post-harvest treatments to slow the deterioration of four different specified vegetables.
• Develop guidelines for post harvest handling, during storage, transportation and marketing, of a specified vegetable variety.
• Analyse vegetable marketing systems in your locality.
• Explain the importance of produce standards to marketing in two different vegetable marketing systems.
• Explain the impact of quarantine regulations on transport of different types of vegetables, in your locality.
• Explain an appropriate procedure for packaging a specified vegetable for long distance transport.
• Develop marketing strategies for three different specified vegetables.

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