IAmHim1:
Congratulations

Gracias!!!

Kehfie:
Congratulations OP. How exciting

Gracias!!!

Wow...

Just when I was asking God for something to celebrate about today, Suzzy put to bed.

Mariangeles:


But they're upright as if still rooted.

Yes, still rooted. I said cut, not uprooted. I only uproot the Ewedu. The Soko(s) are cut and allowed to grow bad. Next cutting should be in a week's time.

FashionCapital:

Me self dey reason same thing. But probably the camera angle cus I can't even see the stems which should be thick I guess.

Misconception here. Like I said, the picture uploaded is from an harvested bed. Yes, those are already cut vegetables.

IAmHim1:
Lolzz

Fan of diabetes

Keep it up

Thanks...

Didn't know a Pepsi & Cowtail pepper soup once in about 2months could make one diabetic.

IAmHim1:
The Pepsi still causes indigestion


Sugar plus any food doesn't make the food digest...instead it putrefies and make one fall sick and in the end, people end up blaming germs as cause of sickness

Germs don't cause diseases! Germs fo to disease tissues/cells...

The same way mosquitos dont cause still waters!
Mosquitos GO TO STILL WATERS!


https://www.nairaland.com/8205250/germs-dont-cause-diseases-dettol

Thanks for the awareness, although my not taking alcohol wasn't born out of healthy living. I'm just a fan of Pepsi that's all.

Pictures of the beds sold out...

Firstly, My most valued asset, my 45k Crocs, my close companion...love u dieeee

O! Beautiful Thursday you are

Ojó 'Bo or Ojó Alamisi“

This is the day on which names of the days arrived. It is a day on which Ancestors visit the family. This is why every important festival begins on Thursday- Ọjọ́ Bo / Ọjọ́ Alamisi.

Woke up with a cheerful spirit, knowing fully well, it's going to be a beautiful blessed day. Just as I finished my early morning prayers to the One true God, my gate don dey make noise; gbam gbam gbam gbam!!! A fe ra Ewedu ati Soko ooo!!!. . (Make I no lie, na the bangs on the gate make me finish the prayer sharp sharp. Baba God forgive your son ooo).

I got out of my small Hamlet on the farm, did a quick stretch, and screamed; I dey cooooome ooooooo, make unaaaa no break my gate because of Efo ooooo. ( walahi, my belle just dey sweet me). To cut the long story short, I was able to sell 4 Soko beds at N7,000. And about 1k Ewedu, making a total income of N8,000.

Chai... Nothing will stop Iya Alaje from seeing me tonight, A plate of Cow tail pepper soup with a bottle of Pepsi (unfortunately, I don't take alcohol....chai, e pain me dieeeee).

RainMoreDFARMS:
He should come to Atan Ota from Badagry because of 5 suckers. Na wa o.

Lol... All market na market o!!! Even if na 1. .i be confirm Igbo blood ooo.

Ologunsunny:
nice write up, how many acres was your land that you plant the plantain?

An acre...6 plots

Mariangeles:


E be like say you no get passion for growing plantains.
Wetin plantain do you?
Show those plantains love wey you dey show others naa! 🥺

Lol
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Beautiful Wednesday Morning...

This was unprecedented. These plantains keep using Genjustu for me. Just yesterday, I walked round the Plantains and didn't see these ripe ones already being eaten by birds. . ABEG, I don taya to dey keep watch every now and then jare!!! I have to carry out immediate cuttings of Plantains from that section of the farm biko. Make I know say plantain no dey that area again. I can't come & kill myself.

Mariangeles:


Okaaay.
That explains the reason why she could easily handle them without being scared of them being aggressive towards her. Because she practically nurtured them.
She was like their mummy. 😀



What!
Expensive baby food for pigs? Na wa O!

Lol... Most are Nestle waste ooo!!! Although I sometimes consume the golden morn. But I strictly advice against anyone eating it biko. .

Redman44:


What do you mean by cured? Curing pig dung? Explain, Sir. thanks.

Oh.. me bad. What I mean by curing is simply composting the manure Oga mi. By doing this, it is ready to be used directly on the crops, no smells, most if the disease causing pathogens have been killed off etc. It smells like good soil by now. You can hardly ever tell it is pig manure after composting it.

By His grace, I will upload pictures of my compost site tomorrow.

The culprit

Lol... Missed another one. Gussssh!!! .

Still trying to know when to go round the farms & harvest. Wild birds just dey enjoy dey go. Most times, I get 5 to 10 bunches like this, almost half of it eaten up by bars & birds.

It's a lucky day for my ducks & pigs. Make I go cut am give Dem. Plantain no b my first choice of 100 foods in the world .

And Yes... I do use their manure only when completely cured & dried. The smell from their waste fit frustrate person comot for farm if not managed properly

Mariangeles:
Your sister is so brave o!
I could never.

What do you feed the pigs?
Can/do use their dung in your farming?

Lol @ my sister. She literally saw them grow from little piglets into the ugly looking monstrous swine's. .

That is another thing entirely. Will explain in details as the thread develops. Nevertheless, their diet ranges from Soybeans, Maize, dried cassavas peels, spent gains, cerelac/golden morn (chai... I follow chop this one Wella... ), vegetables / greens from my chopped plantain trees, waterleaves etc.

More revelations on plantain farming loading...

Plantain farming is Legit

Mariangeles:


Money does not always equate hardworking .

Some men with that mindset easily offend women.
It is okay for a woman to just admire a hardworking man.

I bad. Point taken.

I have been actively involved in plantain replanting since March this year. I just dey remove suckers dey replant.

The goal is to repopulate the land back, both with vegetables & plantains. . I no see small space like this, I go run am with plantain sharp sharp. No time biko.

Attached are pictures of the ones I planted March this year. They are already grown, so proud to see them do so well despite the drought currently been experienced.

Also attached are suckers looking for accommodation.

MaziObinnaokija:
God bless the work of your hands. Plantain is now GOLD..

Amen!!!🙏🙏

And yours too.

... Continuation of Monetization

Oga, hope you saw the 50k, hope you saw the 20k. I sold another 80k. Etc ... And it went on and on like that. Omo, na from plantain I dey see money soooo oooo!!! I no even take care of them oooo. What if I now took care of them like my vegetables? Na so my Igbo blood activate once more oooo!!! Thank God for that hereditary blood in me o .

I did some clearing, cutting down, trimming, reducing to 3 per clusters.

I was getting better and bigger plantains. And selling a bunch for 4k to 6k direct sales. Na market women I hate pass. Those ones go just dey use the more you look, the less you see for me . I Sabi Dem well well

Monetization of the plantains

Up until some years back, I never really gave a care about the plantains. I just allowed it grow wild with careless abandon. I wasn't pruning, i will sometimes visit and see birds eating out the ripe Plantains on the bunches. I cared less jare. Some people do come around once they see me visiting and ask to buy plantains. I go just hand them over to my neighbor to help out. Zooooom, I don Waka.

Moreover, I was still very very emotionally unbalanced after the series of events that happened to me on the farm. (Which I also documented in that particular thread). Nevertheless, everything changed when my neighbor started sending money to me ooooo

Over 30 bunches to be cut in a weeks or so time.

The irony of it all is, I don't like plantain. I no dey chop am at all. Well except I am extremely broke, and all those around me are also broke that I can't borrow money from them to chop Only then do I swallow my pride and eat plantain

A quick glance at the plant farm as of today after it suffered the planetery destruction twice; once from the goats, secondly, from the Storm earlier this year that caused massive destructions to plantain farms in the South West earlier this year around May/June if my memory hasn't failed me.

By the way, Here's my beloved Crocs. I feel we bond well together when I put it on. 45k Crocs my go through and thin with me I swear...!!!lol

The planting was carried out around March of that year . The rain blessed my plantains and procreation started. Lol...

I was also given a worker from Songhai who visited my farm and helped in the planting.

The recommended spacing for plantain was 3m between the plantain rows and 2m within the row (in other words. 3 m x 2 m). Na so we take run am. I was able to plant 700 plants using that spacing on an Acre. Na so I carry the rest dash person ooo!!!lol

Note: I was also made to know the Specie of plantain I got from them, which was the False Horn Plantain. Which I was advised was good for commercial plantain farming. Lol (me wey dey think how my goats go take chop craze comot the plantains)

How I started.

I needed the best of plantain species or type as I was told. The only having place close to me then was Songhai Farms at Avia in Badagry. I was able to purchase 900 plantain seedlings at the rate of 200 per 1. I felt cheated back then oooo I no go lie. Because I could see everywhere on the internet where plantain was being sold for 70 naira, 80naira even 50 naira. Nevertheless, I was glad after some years when I started seeing results.

The goat era

Yes the goats came and devoured the plantation. You will be amazed what just 3 goats would do to an acre of plantain in 2 years. I did document those periods in my goat dairy.lol

In the Beginning ...Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made...

Here we go again.
I want to believe plantain has a special place in God's beautiful masterpiece of creation. Plantain & procreation fits God's divine mandate of go and replenish the earth . I remember my early days on nairaland and I stumbled upon a post on plantain. I read & digested it thoroughly. And it fitted into my Agenda of plantain something on my farmland which could be beneficial to my GOATS . Yes, you heard me right!!! My initial plan was to grow plantain on my farm and feed my goats with it.