Pavore9:


You can also add spices like coriander and curry to the mix.

OK... Thanks for the advice, I will seek to work with them.

organicfoods:
OK... Thanks for the advice, I will seek to work with them.

These will be okay for the top. Coriander is only 7 weeks and you harvest.

Pavore9:


These will be okay for the top. Coriander is only 7 weeks and you harvest.

Great! I have some lettuce seed in place of Coriander.. I do hope it grows just like it.

organicfoods:
Great! I have some lettuce seed in place of Coriander.. I do hope it grows just like it.

It will do very well. I have seen folks grow carrots, beetroots, sweet potatoes, maize, spring onions on the top.

The experiment so far. Meanwhile soloxam gave me some organic fertilizer to try... I will be using it on my lettuce nursery. It was lovely meeting you soloxam!

organicfoods:
OK... Thanks for the advice, I will seek to work with them.

This is the sack that takes up to 100 plants. The soil is changed after every 7 months. It needs watering thrice a week and each sack requires a total of 20 litres of water weekly.

Pavore9:


This is the sack that takes up to 100 plants. The soil is changed after every 7 months. It needs watering thrice a week and each sack requires a total of 20 litres of water weekly.

Great information thanks for the valuable mentoring.

Great idea. Pls can u give the dimension of d bag? Also, is it suitable for multi-cropping? Or is it only a mono-crop system?

Pavore9:


This is the sack that takes up to 100 plants. The soil is changed after every 7 months. It needs watering thrice a week and each sack requires a total of 20 litres of water weekly.

Newway2:
Great idea. Pls can u give the dimension of d bag? Also, is it suitable for multi-cropping? Or is it only a mono-crop system?

I will open a thread hopefully in the coming days on setting up a vertical bag enterprise. It is very suitable for multiply cropping as around one sack, one can grow lettuce, spring onions. celery at the same time and on the top one can grow coriander, our local curry.

Journey so far... Purposely crowding the bags to be sure of planting distance.

Can one grow vegetable (ugu) on it

jamp:
Can one grow vegetable (ugu) on it

Yes you can. Make arrangement for staking with bamboo or available sticks... I am working on ugwu right now. I will the pics in due time.

how many seed in one bag and what is the distance between the bags from each other?

iamodenigbo1:
how many seed in one bag and what is the distance between the bags from each other?

From the results so far... 2 fts apart will just be fine. The specie I planted is growing like a tree... Lol!

organicfoods:
From the results so far... 2 fts apart will just be fine. The specie I planted is growing like a tree... Lol!

thank you bro

iamodenigbo1:
thank you bro

UWC bro.

organicfoods:
From the results so far... 2 fts apart will just be fine. The specie I planted is growing like a tree... Lol!

Am just loving your progress as such efforts are what contribute to food security. Dots of little, congregates to make a mass. When an urban dweller realizes that he can grow his vegetables within a sack then would he realize the power in his hands. Some Reverend Sisters from Ghana recently came to Kenya to understudy vermiculture and vertical sack farming since they intend going organic where they would be using manure from their earthworms and vermiliquids for liquid fertilizers. They would be setting up their farm within a space of 120ft by 180ft. From the feasibility studies done, they would be smiling to the bank on a monthly basis!

Pavore9:


Am just loving your progress as such efforts are what contribute to food security. Dots of little, congregates to make a mass. When an urban dweller realizes that he can grow his vegetables within a sack then would he realize the power in his hands. Some Reverend Sisters from Ghana recently came to Kenya to understudy vermiculture and vertical sack farming since they intend going organic where they would be using manure from their earthworms and vermiliquids for liquid fertilizers. They would be setting up their farm within a space of 120ft by 180ft. From the feasibility studies done, they would be smiling to the bank on a monthly basis!

I also plan to do the same too very soon...

Pavore9:


Am just loving your progress as such efforts are what contribute to food security. Dots of little, congregates to make a mass. When an urban dweller realizes that he can grow his vegetables within a sack then would he realize the power in his hands. Some Reverend Sisters from Ghana recently came to Kenya to understudy vermiculture and vertical sack farming since they intend going organic where they would be using manure from their earthworms and vermiliquids for liquid fertilizers. They would be setting up their farm within a space of 120ft by 180ft. From the feasibility studies done, they would be smiling to the bank on a monthly basis!

The inspiration I got from your threads and blog is really astonishing... I am building a serious revolution around this concept.. .I have started lready and it's quite interesting... We have many jobless youths that can leverage on the opportunities this concept offers.

organicfoods:
The inspiration I got from your threads and blog is really astonishing... I am building a serious revolution around this concept.. .I have started already and it's quite interesting... We have many jobless youths that can leverage on the opportunities this concept offers.

Getting millions of idle youths engaged is no rocket science. I asked some where in one of my posts why Ogun State is not cashing in fortune from Lagosians who spends billions of Naira daily on food despite the fact they are next door neighbours and 5 times the size of Lagos State but just serving as an entry point for trailers of foodstuff from the North?

That is why am so against the purported N5,000 monthly for the unemployed youth as it adds no real value to their lives. Rather than give 1,000 youths N5,000 each which sums up N5m. It should be used to get them resource persons to train them on vertical sack farming, vermiculture, greenhouse construction and post harvest storage where there is no electricity, all these will take only 2 weeks to learn. These idle youths will transform to employers of labour, government will collect taxes from the enterprises they would set up and the ripple effect continues!

@organicfoods, please can i have your contacts. Thanks

PAL123:
@organicfoods, please can i have your contacts. Thanks

08034342637

Oga @d top, Pls how is d Ugwu in vertical sack doing? Can u post pix? How many Ugwu seeds did u plant/bag?
Also from ur posting, it seems u are using organic fertilizer instead of manure in d sack, how good is d organic fertilizer & can u still help somebody 2 get d it?

organicfoods:
Yes you can. Make arrangement for staking with bamboo or available sticks... I am working on ugwu right now. I will the pics in due time.

Newway2:
Oga @d top, Pls how is d Ugwu in vertical sack doing? Can u post pix? How many Ugwu seeds did u plant/bag?
Also from ur posting, it seems u are using organic fertilizer instead of manure in d sack, how good is d organic fertilizer & can u still help somebody 2 get d it?

I haven't started the Ugu nursery yet... Was preoccupied with onions, lettuce, tomato and sweet pepper. Just got a suitable location for real expansion. It's an abandoned pure water factory with about 2 plots of space available for my use.

On organic fertilizer, I prefer it to manure... reason is that manure tend to provide perfect medium for bacteria and nematodes. All I need for my tomatoes to fruits well is potassium which I am getting from banana ash plus some other materials.

You can get organic fertilizer... Need to know what you need it for.

Nitrogen : for leaves development, worm mould will be perfect
Pottasium : excellent for fruiting like tomatoes.

Phosphorus : for stem development.

Other micro nutrients like boron, zinc and the rest are essential.

Usually nutrients needs of individual varies if you want maximum results.

organicfoods:
I haven't started the Ugu nursery yet... Was preoccupied with onions, lettuce, tomato and sweet pepper. Just got a suitable location for real expansion. It's an abandoned pure water factory with about 2 plots of space available for my use.

On organic fertilizer, I prefer it to manure... reason is that manure tend to provide perfect medium for bacteria and nematodes. All I need for my tomatoes to fruits well is potassium which I am getting from banana ash plus some other materials.

You can get organic fertilizer... Need to know what you need it for.

Nitrogen : for leaves development, worm mould will be perfect
Pottasium : excellent for fruiting like tomatoes.

Phosphorus : for stem development.

Other micro nutrients like boron, zinc and the rest are essential.

Usually nutrients needs of individual varies if you want maximum results.

where are you and can I visit you.?

okongo:
where are you and can I visit you.?

Sure you can visit me. My office is at Akobo Ibadan.

Meanwhile I transferred the plants to my newly acquired office and the stress on the plant were heart wrecking the next day. But thank goodness they are coming back from the brink of death. Honestly tomatoes are really tough plant... They die hard.. .they are equally as fragile.

We dserve the luck we found... All these space for us to grow crops vertically... . Together with my partner we are moving to the next phase of our revolution.

Land and bore hole all for our use! What a lovely combination. In one of the field, it appears all the worms in world converge there for a festival... Worm cast on the field was about 20 cm deep in some areas

Bore hole and nursery under mulching.

My nurseries consisting of...Tomatoes, Onions, lettuce, cabbage sweet pepper and leek.

[quote author=organicfoods post=41129875]We dserve the luck we found... All these space for us to grow crops vertically... . Together with my partner we are moving to the next phase of our revolution.

Land and bore hole all for our use! What a lovely combination. In one of the field, it appears all the worms in world converge there for a festival... Worm cast on the field was about 20 cm deep in some areas [/quote

organicfoods:
We dserve the luck we found... All these space for us to grow crops vertically... . Together with my partner we are moving to the next phase of our revolution.

Land and bore hole all for our use! What a lovely combination. In one of the field, it appears all the worms in world converge there for a festival... Worm cast on the field was about 20 cm deep in some areas

Good morning sir, where you able to produce more of d sacks pavore sent? If yes, how much per one and can u pls produce for me? Thanks