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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Tunjibalogun: 6:46pm On Aug 29, 2022
Neduzze5:
I recently rented a new apartment and part of my goals is to have a fish pond at the back balcony, grow some crops there, and also have a small snailery there as well.

It's a pretty small place, so I would need to make use of the space as judiciously as possible in order to ensure that I am able to achieve all that I have planned out for the space.

Over the next few months, I will be sharing my progress on the mobile pond, as well as the progress of my mini farm.

Endeavour to follow the thread, comment and stay tuned for more updates.
Kindly quote me when you release any update

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by yemmit90: 6:50pm On Aug 29, 2022
Neduzze5:
I had to leave on a 5 nights business movement away from the house.

The watering needs of my crops was a headache to me and I needed to find a solution.

A peek into YouTube gave me the ideas I needed to get this done.

Hopefully, the plants will not die of lack of water before I'm back.

Except you are transplanting, you cant grow pepper and tomato in group like that. They will soon die off in that small plastic base.

Get a big planting pot and transplant each in big pot.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by opicgif: 6:50pm On Aug 29, 2022
Nice one

Where are you based?

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by emysmile: 6:51pm On Aug 29, 2022
Good Job

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by nextstep(m): 6:51pm On Aug 29, 2022
toloohthegreat:



Dey waste ur time

For 4 years now, I don't need to buy tomatoes and peppers for 8-9 months. Some weeks I can get a basket of tomatoes and can't finish them all so I gift them to people.

To preserve without a fridge, I also grind, then fry them. Put in airtight jars and cover with oil.

Not a waste of time, and I started in a small box, like OP
Saves me a ton of money for 8 months.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Dearlord(m): 6:57pm On Aug 29, 2022
Neduzze5:
I had a lot of La Sien bottles in my house, so I got three of them and cut their bottoms open.

Using a nail, I punctured two opposite holes close to the now opened bottom of the bottles.

It was through those holes I pushed in the ropes that were used to suspend them in the air.

Finally, I opened a hole in the cover of the bottles with a nail as well.

Noticing that the holes were too wide and the water was dripping too fast, I took out three cotton bud sticks, and removed the wools.

Using fire, I closed one end of the cotton bud stick and stuck the other end into the bottle cover.

This served to reduce the quick flow of the water, thereby ensuring that;

1. The water won't quickly drip out.
2. My crops won't get flooded.

I then tied them to the support I had created before filling them with water.

I would return by Wednesday and hopeful that the crops would be alive till then.
You should have looked for a drip switch and connected it to 10L of a gallon that will supply it water for 4days by setting the drip drop for a drop of water per minute

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Fabulouslouie(m): 7:03pm On Aug 29, 2022
Neduzze5:
Went out a few minutes ago to check on them, and the tomatoes had their head drooping.

The sun was too hot today and seems like they were seriously affected.

I was planning to travel for three or four days but I don't think they'd survive at this rate.

I need to find a way to deliver water to them daily without my presence.

Get a drip

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by AndroidAI(m): 7:06pm On Aug 29, 2022
Altruisticboy:
This stupid party is making Wike look like he's stubborn. But no. Agreement is agreement.
They all agreed to give chairmanship to south and presidency to north in 2019. now 2023, they agreed to give chairmanship to the north and expected presidency to south but abracadabra; the gave atiku from the north and start singing MERIT

This one you carry Naija politics for head. How market?

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Beholdcfew(m): 7:07pm On Aug 29, 2022
Tenant dey plant flower

Neduzze5:
I recently rented a new apartment and part of my goals is to have a fish pond at the back balcony, grow some crops there, and also have a small snailery there as well.

It's a pretty small place, so I would need to make use of the space as judiciously as possible in order to ensure that I am able to achieve all that I have planned out for the space.

Over the next few months, I will be sharing my progress on the mobile pond, as well as the progress of my mini farm.

Endeavour to follow the thread, comment and stay tuned for more updates.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by TenOverTen111(m): 7:09pm On Aug 29, 2022
I'm fully Following

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Folapass(m): 7:09pm On Aug 29, 2022
sexyto:
How do you fight white flies that affects pepper.
get black soap in the market put it ordinary water to disolve,spary sparingly on affected vegetables

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Obidatti2023s(m): 7:12pm On Aug 29, 2022
Akposy:
Nice one.

I also garden. I started snail gardening recently.

Currently, I have thyme, rosemary, scent leaf, sweet basil, English spinach,Citronella, parsley, hot pepper, cherry tomato and grape in my garden.

Care to share a photo of them please
Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Bankowner: 7:15pm On Aug 29, 2022
Na dem!

You can always spot them from afar.

adecz:


You can also raise some cows and
goats on the back balcony and
Agbado and cassava in the front❗️❗️☺️☺️☺️

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by SeriouslySense(m): 7:16pm On Aug 29, 2022
I love your garden, i wish you more success growing your garden and i hope you keep us updated.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Iamfavored: 7:20pm On Aug 29, 2022
And this was first posted in April o

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by AutoRedux: 7:30pm On Aug 29, 2022
Abeg who sabi where I fit buy stone breaker seeds. I dey Enugu.
Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by HazardAwka(m): 7:32pm On Aug 29, 2022
I'm a Conservationist, keep it up

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Neduzze5(m): 7:38pm On Aug 29, 2022
Skibani99:
OK,hope this works
Quit innovative though..

Thanks boss. I had to do a test run before going to the office.

Noticed that it stopped at some point, so I had to poke the hole a little bit so that the water can drip out more often.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by federalgodey: 7:41pm On Aug 29, 2022
Where's the snail & catfish?

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by DeBiafran: 7:41pm On Aug 29, 2022
Neduzze5:

No pls. Don't wait any further, you may lose them. Transplant them already. Mix manure (poultry waste) in your soil now and water it. Let it cool off for about 2days and then transplant in the 3rd day.

Remember not to fill up the sac with the soil now because you will need to add more soil to the plants as they grow taller.

Same applies to the pepper.

Weldone. I love what you are doing.


Yes, I will be transplanting them by the first weekend of next month.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Makschinchin: 7:52pm On Aug 29, 2022
Neduzze5:


I've not had that experience yet and this is actually my first time of planting pepper, so I'd be looking out for that when it's the time.

Besides, this is being done on a small scale, and on my balcony so it would be pretty controlled.

Can you please share the manure you use for the plants and how often you apply them??

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by ABG2222: 7:58pm On Aug 29, 2022
Akposy:
Nice one.

I also garden. I started snail gardening recently.

Currently, I have thyme, rosemary, scent leaf, sweet basil, English spinach,Citronella, parsley, hot pepper, cherry tomato and grape in my garden.

Impressive
you have all the things I would love to plant

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by CedarHoldings: 8:09pm On Aug 29, 2022
O p don challenge me, na small livestock dey my mind now

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Obagofixxy: 8:14pm On Aug 29, 2022
wow this Is lovely... Op nice one jare

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by everythinggirly(f): 8:15pm On Aug 29, 2022
Welldone.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Makschinchin: 8:20pm On Aug 29, 2022
Neduzze5:
Planted 9 groundnut seeds and so far, just four have germinated after almost 13 days.
Please can you show picture of the groundnut seed if you have any sad I planted tomatoes, pepper and scent leaf and they are all growing well... I'll like to add groundnut to my little garden too... Picture of the groundnut seed for planting pleeeeeeaaaaasssssseeeee

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Nobody: 8:20pm On Aug 29, 2022
Wow , I love this , I'm also a farmer.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Shawl001(m): 8:21pm On Aug 29, 2022
This is nice, OP. Well done. I have a small verander too, perhaps I can try something out. Pls, how do I go with it?
The kind of sand to use, the pepper seeds,and others. Thanks.

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Re: Gardening On My Balcony - Tomatoes, Pepper, Groundnut, Ugu, Snail and Catfish by Franklyspeakin: 8:27pm On Aug 29, 2022
I could supply you for a fee
AutoRedux:
Abeg who sabi where I fit buy stone breaker seeds. I dey Enugu.

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