Seed Co Vegetables Zambia, trading as Prime Seed Co is a vegetable seed business that is primarily involved in the supply of Certified hybrid and open pollinated Vegetable Seeds.
Our products are tested and adapted to Zambia’s agro-ecologies for outstanding yields and tolerance to pests and diseases.
We pride ourselves in the quality and technology of our brands, reinforcing our commitment to delivering and satisfying our market demands and providing unparalleled customer service.
Seedco varieties combine high yielding ability and good agronomic traits such as drought and disease tolerance, good "standablity", stablitiy across seasons and regions.
Can't find the answer you are looking for? We have shared some of our frequently asked questions to help you out.
(a).Cabbage: VS209 F1
(b).Tomato:Alambra F1
(c).Candela F1
4. Sweet Peppers: (a). Hercules F1-Red
(d).Solanor F1-yellow pepper
(e). Rape Rampart
(f). ONION-Regent F1
(h). SQUASH BUTTERNUT: ULTRAF1
(i). WATERMELON: KITO F1
| Time of Planting | Crops |
| Winter | Broccoli,Cauliflower,Lettuce |
| All year Round | Tomato, Sweet pepper, Cabbage, Carrot, rape, Chinese & Spinach. |
| Summer | Butternuts,Cucumber,Eggplant,Sweetcorn,Okra,Finebeans, watermelon |
| Feb-Mar | Onion |
| CROP | INROW SPACING | INTERROW SPACING |
| Tomato | 30cm(open field) | 1,5-2m |
| 40cm(Tunnel) | 1.5-2m | |
| Sweet peppers | 50cm | 40cm |
| Eggplant | 75cm | 50cm |
| Cabbage | 60cm | 50cm for big heads |
| 50cm | 50cm for small heads | |
| Onion | 8-11cm | 15cm |
| Carrot | 8-11cm | 15cm |
| Rape, Spinach & Chinese | 30cm | 30cm |
| Butternuts | 50cm | 1.5cm |
| Watermelon | 80cm | 1.5cm |
| Cucumber | 50cn | 1.5cm |
| Green beans | 8cm | 20cm |
| Sweetcorn | 25cm | 75cm |
| CROP | DAYS TO MATURITY |
| Tomato | 75-80days |
| Sweet pepper | 80-90 days |
| Sweetcorn | 90 days |
| Cabbage | 75-80 days |
| Carrot | 90-110 days |
| Okra | 55-60 days |
| Onion | 90-110 days |
| Butternuts | 75-80 days |
| watermelon | 80-90 days |
| Rape | 21-30 days |
| Cucumber | 55-60 days |
| Chinese Cabbage | 35-40 days |
| Spinach | 45-50 days |
The following are the best management practices for vegetable growing:
Different vegetables mature at different days, but the best time to harvest vegetables is when they are fully matured or when they have attained there physiological maturity.
| Seeds | Number of seeds /HA |
| Cucumber | 1kg |
| Tomato | 200g/15-20,000 |
| Pepper | 200g/20,000 seeds |
| Onion | 4-8kg |
| Eggplant | 200g |
| Okra | 8kg |
| Cabbage | 200g |
| Rape | 200g |
| Butternuts | 1.5-2kg |
| Watermelon | 3-5kg |
| Sweetcorn | 8kg |
| Carrot | 2kg |
| Lettuce | 150g |
| Green beans | 100kg |
| Spinach | 200g |
| Chinese Cabbage | 200g |
The best answer to this question is planting frost tolerant, cool season crops that can withstand harsh cold weather e.g. broccoli, cabbage, Cauliflower, lettuce etc. But you can artificially increase temperature in winter by the use of heaters in the greenhouse or artificial lighting in the field that produces heat. Traditionally farmers would fence the edge of the garden to help keep plants off colds. The use of Products like Vapour guard can also help a great deal.
Determinate tomatoes are varieties that grow to a fixed mature size, ripen all their fruit in a short period (usually between 10-15days) and are “bush” tomatoes. Once this first flush of fruit has ripened, the plant will begin to diminish in vigour and will set little to no new fruit.
Indeterminate tomato varieties are vining plants that continue growing in length throughout the growing season, which is why they often are referred to as vining tomatoes. They continually set and ripen fruit through thire entire growing season and as a result, they give a slow and steady supply of tomatoes.
| Crop | Varieties | Yield (t/ha) |
| Beans Green F1 | Salima | 12-15 t |
| Beetroot OPV | Dark Detroit red | 25-40 t |
| Broccoli F1 | Cigno | 15 -20t |
| Corato | ||
| Formosa | ||
| Cabbage OPV | Copenhagen market | 33000h |
| Sugarloaf | ||
| Cabbage F1 | Dixit | 33 000h |
| Majesty | ||
| Vikima VS209 | ||
| Carrot OPV | Kuroda | 15-20 t |
| Nantes | ||
| Cauliflower F1 | Nevada | 30-40 t |
| Cucumber Greenhouse F1 | Dreamliner | 400 000heads |
| Cucumber OPV | Ashley | 8t |
| Eggplant OPV | Black beauty | 15t |
| Lettuce OPV | Great Lakes | 90000 heads |
| Okra OPV | Clemson spineless | 10 t |
| Onion OPV | Red creole | 5-10 t |
| Texas grano | ||
| Pepper OPV | Carlifornia wonder | 10-12t |
| Peppers F1 | Hercules | 45-90 t |
| Red prime | ||
| Solanor | ||
| Sunshine | ||
| Rape OPV | English Giant | 90-120 t |
| Rampart | ||
| Spinach OPV | Fordhook | 15-20 t |
| Squash butternut OPV | Waltham | 20-25 t |
| Squash butternut F1 | Avalon | 70-90 t |
| Prism | ||
| Tomato Indeterminate F1 | Alambra | 150-250t |
| Candela | ||
| Oasis | ||
| Tomato Greenhouse F1 | Alambra | 300-400t |
| Candela | ||
| Oasis | ||
| Tomato Determinate F1 | Daisy | 80-150 t |
| Htx14 | ||
| Jackpot | ||
| Pietrarossa | ||
| Tomato OPV | Tengeru 97 | 40-50t |
| Watermelon OPV | Crimson sweet | 15 t |
| Watermelon F1 | Kito | 70-100 t |
| Tajiri |
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