mascottboy:
Pls oo, can i use chicken manure to apply my yam, nd of hw many month can apply dem.

chicken manure may not be safe for your crop unless u do composting. u can however use cow dung or Takiforce from Jubaili Agrotec

Abojupupa:
Where will you get stakes for the yam seedlings when they start crawling?

Please, explain this. Or is it not necessary when the yam tendrils start crawling?

Following

Staking of yam is necessary to help the yam leaves receive enough sunlight for optimum production

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Imoala:
Staking of yam is necessary to help the yam leaves receive enough sunlight for optimum production

I just wish this post is still alive. Am about to plant yams now in Edo state. My heaps are ready but I dont want to make any mistake. I already bought yam tubers. Should I wait till January or I can go ahead and plant now?

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Imoala:


Yea my brother good question, is not compulsory but its necessary, ashes or palm oil rubbed on the fresh faces of the yam will deprive microbes from the soil to come close to the yam seedlings inside the heaps until they germinate
Ashes help to turn the immediate soil area of the yam seedlings to alkaline which microbes abhor alot
Apart from the hot sun that spoils yam seedlings the next spoiler is microbes,

can i use Palm oil and Ashes together? I have already rub with palm oil but I feel like rubbing with Ashes to be on a safer side
Also can I plant now (September) since raining back now although I'm experimenting the planting

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