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This thread is about what it entails cultivating both white and green garden egg during the dry season.

Will involve all unit processes involved in nursery, land preparation, transplanting, maintenance, irrigation, harvesting and sales.

Updates will include pictures, figures and wordings.

Follow up as we update.

Garden egg also known as eggplant is a popular fruity vegetable. Depending on the variety, it is either consumed fresh as a snack or boiled and used in preparing sauce.

If you have never eaten garden egg sauce together with boiled/roasted plantain, yam or cocoyam, you are definitely missing a health and nutritious meal that is packed with enough minerals and vitamins.

For the purpose of this project, we shall focus on the agribusiness of white and green snack garden egg varieties.

A brief intro about the farm location:

Our farm location is domiciled in Ogun State. It is a partially swamp land on a gentle slope that terminates in a little stream.

The reason we chose this site for the project is because garden egg loves enough soil moisture for optimum yield.

Also, the stream will be an excellent source of water during the dry season for irrigation.

We intend cultivating the garden egg in batches on over 1acre of land. First batch just started flowering and fruiting; second batch transplanting is almost completed while the unit processes of the third batch will be recorded here for others to learn.

Hopefully, I will update pictures of stand from the first and second batch tomorrow.

Scholastica010:
A brief intro about the farm location:

Our farm location is domiciled in Ogun State. It is a partially swamp land on a gentle slope that terminates in a little stream.

The reason we chose this site for the project is because garden egg loves enough soil moisture for optimum yield.

Also, the stream will be an excellent source of water during the dry season for irrigation.

We intend cultivating the garden in batches on over 1acre of land. First batch just started flowering and fruiting; second batch transplanting is almost completed while the unit processes of the third batch will be recorded here for others to learn.

@Op

Well done and thumbs up 👍 to you indeed.
I will be following this thread as you keep dropping the update on your current farm project activities.

How many plots of land are you planning to use for cultivating the garden egg?

dorispray:
@Op

Well done and thumbs up 👍 to you indeed.
I will be following this thread as you keep dropping the update on your current farm project activities.

How many plots of land are you planning to use for cultivating the garden egg?

The planting is done in staggered batches.
First batch is intercropped with cucumber and currently flowering and fruiting; transplanting for second batch is currently in progress; while third batch nursery will commence soonest. Total land area will be over 1acre.

We are also running heirloom rodo as well but I may create a separate thread for that.

Attached are pictures of white garden egg plant after transplanting and during flowering/fruiting.

Tomorrow hopefully, I will highlight the process and cost of preparing the garden egg nursery.

I'm following you bumper to bumper. Can't wait to have this update. Well done 👍

Scholastica010:
Tomorrow hopefully, I will highlight the process and cost of preparing the garden egg nursery.

The points outlined across this post are remarkably accurate and reflective of the current reality, because issues of this nature often get hijacked by noise rather than meaningful, substantive points. Hopefully, the subsequent replies keep up this high standard of quality discussion.

dorispray:
I'm following you bumper to bumper. Can't wait to have this update. Well done 👍

Thank you for the follow up. I will try as much as I can to update regularly. It will most likely be an interesting venture.

Just like most fruit vegetables, nursery for eggplant is a critical step towards the success of the farm. A healthy nursery is a good pointer towards bountiful harvest.

The nursery can be done using seed trays or on raised beds. It is expected to sit 4 - 6 weeks after sprouting in the nursery depending on the growth rate. For this project, we are doing our nursery on raised beds.

One 4litres plastic measurement of cured manure is broadcasted and tilled into a raised bed of 3m length and 1m width. This is to ensure constant nutrient supply to the young seedlings through their stay in the nursery.

The seeds are mixed with one 4litres plastic measurement of dried sand and broadcasted on the raised bed. This is to proper spread of the seeds on the bed. Without the sand, there is a tendency for seeds to cluster at some spots. This encourages overcrowding, stunted growth and/or damping-off if moisture is too much.

After seed broadcast, light layer of soil is spread over the seeds to cover them, watering can is used to water lightly and a strong pungent insecticide (sharpshooter, ironforce, dimeforce etc) is sprayed over the nursery and surrounding areas to keep crickets and other pests away.

Freshly cut palm fronds are used to cover the bed until signs of sprouting are noticed within 1week.

COST OF NURSERY SETUP

Seeds #20,000
Manure #500
Fungicide #1,500
Insecticide #2,500
Labour cost #15,000
Total #39,500

Pictures of the nursery process will be uploaded.

@OpThank you for the updates.

To be honest, I am enjoying the information "as dem talk say oyinvo man dey enjoy Cigar"

Now be specific, which of the afore mentioned insecticides did you actually sprayed to the nursery plants abi na combination of those 3 you applied?

Scholastica010:
Pictures of the nursery process will be uploaded.

I can't wait to see the pictures

dorispray:
@OpThank you for the updates.

To be honest, I am enjoying the information "as dem talk say oyinvo man dey enjoy Cigar"

Now be specific, which of the afore mentioned insecticides did you actually sprayed to the nursery plants abi na combination of those 3 you applied?

I sprayed one brand of cypermethrin based insecticide because that is what is currently available. I'm yet to stock up on agrochemicals.

Cypermethrin should handle crickets around the bed, but spraying the surrounding area too is important since they can cut seedlings overnight. Just ensure the nursery is not drenched with it, and keep an eye on damping-off as watering starts.

Lesgupnigeria:
Cypermethrin should handle crickets around the bed, but spraying the surrounding area too is important since they can cut seedlings overnight. Just ensure the nursery is not drenched with it, and keep an eye on damping-off as watering starts.

Like you suggested, I do spray surrounding areas as well to keep crickets and other pests away. The bed is high enough for proper drainage after wetting or rainfall. I also have copper-based fungi for prevention of damping-off or diseases.

Thanks for your input.

Another proactive practice is carried out when making the nursery bed was that I laid and burnt some dried weed over the nursery area. This is to reduce disease and pest load in the nursery area.

Additional the ashes would also serve as manure for the seedlings.

Alright.... This is brilliant of you.

Awaiting more updates as they comes.

@Op. Well done

Scholastica010:
Another proactive practice is carried out when making the nursery bed was that I laid and burnt some dried weed over the nursery area. This is to reduce disease and pest load in the nursery area.

Additional the ashes would also serve as manure for the seedlings.