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You can start booking your sweet potato vines.. we have started harvesting for the rainy season.
Varieties available:
-Mothers Delight
-Ex-igbariam

You can start booking your order. Full organic grown foundation stock vines for sale.

Sweet potato factory
Sneak peak of the ugu

Ridges for roots

Our vines are really picking up, and from the looks of things, I should already start marketing to farmer… I’ve also started transplanting some vines for root production. Any one interested in buying vines for the planting season can drop me a message.

MadamVanessa:


Wow

She's lucky there's no petty thieves over there. Assuming it was here in Ogun , the thing will be riping inside thieves stomachs.

Congratulations to your mum, next harvest will be bountiful.

Now this statement put fear in my mind ooo.. make nobody go harvest my pineapple farm here in Ogun state oooo.. I fit cry if e happen. Been nurturing those babies for close to 18 months.

Did a quick stop at the farm today. Dem dey gimme joy

Princeadebayo11:
So you mean pineapple normally use up to a year before harvesting?

More than sef… It takes an average of 18 months when planted from suckers to form fruit.

nonxo007:
This was just the motivation I needed. I have it at heart to start farming this year, I have already secured a land and hopefully would clear it up by the end of this month. I am still contemplating on what to grow, I am hoping you could give me some suggestions. The land is in Abuja and the rains have gradually started.

Kindly give an advice to a newbie in farming, this is my first time.

As a newbie though, you could try your hands on maize or cassava or both.. Those crops are quite rugged and can withstand some severe weather conditions, depending on the variety planted.

If irrigation is in place, you could go with Pepper, Tomato, Plantain, Ugu, Potato, Yam.

In terms of long term crops, you could go with Palms, pineapples, Oranges, Mango, Teak tree. It all depends on what you intend on achieving at the end of the day…

nonxo007:
This was just the motivation I needed. I have it at heart to start farming this year, I have already secured a land and hopefully would clear it up by the end of this month. I am still contemplating on what to grow, I am hoping you could give me some suggestions. The land is in Abuja and the rains have gradually started.

Kindly give an advice to a newbie in farming, this is my first time.

You know I'm also a newbie at this. I'm currently learning in the process, but I could be of help in anyway I possibly can.

northbird:
@ Austinreal. Good job. The weeder you posted up there. Was it used for clearing before planting, or you are using it to weed presently.?.
Is the machine effective against weeds?

I used the weeder before and after planting.. The picture posted was from yesterday at the farm. That's what I'm using to weed the maize.. it's quite effective against grassy weeds and early broad leaf weeds. Won't be too effective when the broad leaf weeds are mature

Photo dump

Another day at the field today. Those crops are looking highly impressive, as they have started forming covers to the ground. I’ve also started first weeding, which would all be done with zero chemicals..

Slow and steady progressing

Yet another week at the farm.. I’ve proceeded to start manually weeding the beds… Zero chemicals are gonna be used in the field…

I don't think we Nigerians realize the level of poverty this government is trying to plunge Nigerians into.. 4 trillion no be child's play oOoOO.. We still dey pay customs, tax, tolls,stamp duty, exorbitant bank charges etc... What's there to show for all this?

The maize are also looking pretty good

Current progress on the vines… They are coming along pretty good. The rain has just been moving mad for the past couple of days, but with frequent watering practices, the crops have been faring quite well.

strenghtt:
The wetting or irrigation system can be made to function automatically saving you the stress you go through every day.

What can be done to carry out this operation automatically plz

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Update!!!
The past couple has been quite stressful, being that I have to constantly be wetting the field every evening for most part. But the effort has been worth it. Most of the potatoes have started bringing out green leaves. Also the Ugu vegetables are doing pretty good.. however the sun has not been merciful for the past couple of days now..

Praying for the financial might to be able to get the drip irrigation solution.. Abeg anyone that is selling cheap oooo!!! Help a brother

Thanks all

Cassavas

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I did a quick stop today at my other farm sites, and it appears the weeds in the pineapple farm has started sprouting rigorously. I would have to do something about it as soon as possible. My cassavas are looking quite okay.. Pictures attached.

Highways:
I was currently selected for a short course on Potato sector development by the OKP scholarship and will be starting in May.... Keep up the work... Following the potato planting

Thanks for viewing my thread sir. I promise to keep the thread updated as much as I can. I’m also interested in such programs. Really hope I can be eligible to participate in such in the nearest future.

We are finally done with the planting. Took a total of 5days to finish planting 260 bundles of vine cuttings.

Next step is constant wetting of the field

Plant spacing used is 0.2m x 0.1 meters.

We’ve still got a long way to go with planting.

Sneak peak of how the ugwu plants are doing.

Progress

Vines stored inside of the building in the farm. I tried keeping them alive by sprinkling water on the plants as often as possible.

I didn’t have sufficient space to store my vines, hence I had to improvise on a make shift shade. I should have left some trees to provide shade for the vines. But we move.