Well done

God bless your hustle bro

God bless your hustle Bro..

What a nice thing....keep it up bro!

Very commendable! Keep at it, you don't know where this road will lead you to. I love watermelon

God bless your hustle

SuperSuave:
Good day boys and girls, I wanted to create this thread about two weeks ago but data dey do me ojoro since Mtn stopped giving out free 20mb but it's good I now have something to manage.

I really wanted to plant something since everything I needed was readily available.

I started a watermelon farm with the first heavy rain of the year in Ilorin, Kwara state. Prior to that time I researched some basic procedures and other things about watermelon farming like the planting time, type of seed to be planted(wet or dry), spacing, depth and some other things. I stumbled upon a thread on Nairaland during my research.

I'll comment on the pictures I'll post as we roll

The farm is in my compound, just beside where we dump and burn garbage. The soil is sandy loam.

How did you get rid of the pests ? I started a small farm like yours and the plants are invaded by small snails and later by those caterpillars. I abandoned the farm. Do you use pesticides. If you do, which one do you suggest?

@OP nice one..

God bless ur hustle

Nice one @OP

na this kind people I dey like as friends. And not guy how far nah? e get joint wey just open for area, how e go be nah?? (all expenses expected on you o). when eventually u pocket runs low, all man go flee. smh. May God see Us thru o!

Na PaPa And MaMa dey here..o no be Boys and Girls

so how u com tak handle dat watermelon ebola, besides so na only two watermelon u dey disturb urself since.

Good job...very industrious

weldone

jeron1:


dont let anyone deceive u... Most of the water melon we eat here are not from the north... people r making millions from the south just from planting r water melon. if u think im lieing, visit ogun state or edo state on ur way to auchi

when you see water melon farm in the north then you will believe that those one from Edo state and Ogun are child play bro


so when they said ,most of the water melon are from the north just accept that ..simple

wish these would grow here is SS... I love gardening esp fruits. I wouldn't have been spending much buying watermelons.

SuperSuave:
I'll consider this a success viewing the second picture

The second harvest is about 4days after the first, I noticed it cracked beneath so I harvested it immediately

Kudos. This is inspiring, and at the nick of time too. We have a small farm too, though we practice mixed cropping system, I also want to engage in animal husbandry before the end of the year.

Agbe looba.God bless ur haustling

I did something similar, but one heavy rain destroyed my crop , I felt bad sha ... But the mere size of this fruit screams “try again success is 3 feet away”. bellow is what I salvaged ...

And very sweet too

Exactly what we need in this country. Entrepreneurial skills coupled with patience & perseverance........but sadly most youths dz dayz ain't productive enough to think this out or lemme say they are rather too lazy & lay their hopes on white collar jobs & pressing phones upandown.

Medunah:
Op fine though

ladies sha so no comment on the water melon

gebest:
so how u com tak handle dat watermelon ebola, besides so na only two watermelon u dey disturb urself since.

Stop being pessimistic & negative. Must u critize & dampens people's morale Bad belle

This is nice and very encouraging.

Keep it up brother.

God bless you.

SuperSuave:
I'll consider this a success viewing the second picture

The second harvest is about 4days after the first, I noticed it cracked beneath so I harvested it immediately

Lovely! Which part of the country is this?

this a good effort by you. please stop calling it small. well done bro. God bless your struggle

pls which part of the country are u ?

SuperSuave:
Week 10- I was inspecting the farm on a Saturday and saw those ones spoilt and some being eaten up
-Those are the bastaard pests I mostly see underneath or beside the fruits, I don't even know the name

week 11- just before harvesting the one on the right

Good job. Pls protect your farm from larger pests. "Herdsmen"

jeron1:


dont let anyone deceive u... Most of the water melon we eat here are not from the north... people r making millions from the south just from planting r water melon. if u think im lieing, visit ogun state or edo state on ur way to auchi

Thank you! .....I know a particular family here in Imo state that's making mega bucks through their cucumber, Carrot and Water Melon farms..........

bobokunlexzy:


Stop being pessimistic & negative. Must u critize & dampens people's morale Bad belle

weldone o good belle

Bro dts a nice one.... Pls hw do I contact you? I am intrested in this maggic money making venture.

Badgers14:
Good for you sir, instead of sit down dey wait for bubu's 5k.. You went right to work

May God Bless our hussles

Funny you


OP, nice one jawe

Please i need watermelons in large quantity .my number 07067439755