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Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 10:00am On Oct 12, 2016

I will leave all the stories for market women and go straight to the point.

If you are one of the market woman, lol... Use this link.
https://www.nairaland.com/3304342/cucumber-farming-experience-lagos

My farm is located at Odo-egiri, Epe, Lagos State.

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 10:32am On Oct 12, 2016

Land preparation

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by Following(m): 10:42am On Oct 12, 2016

ehm...i sabi sey recession don catch ur keyboard,but pls make it educative by stating farm size in metre-square, specie of crop planted,spacing among others and don't forget to give me tasting o!

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 10:54am On Oct 12, 2016

Manure application and planting

I do "on the spot" manure application. By this I mean the spot I intend to plant the seed.

Then plant on row at 50cm space and 1inch deep. I plant one seed per hole.

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 11:17am On Oct 12, 2016

Seed

The best variety of seed that I know for now is Tokyo F1 and that is what I planted.

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 11:37am On Oct 12, 2016

Cucumber starts to sprout around 4-5 days

This is how a week old cucumber farm looks.

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 11:50am On Oct 12, 2016

The network is recalcitrant here so manage the token I'm able to type and and upload.

I may modify later if need be.

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 12:17pm On Oct 12, 2016

Fertiliser

I as well use inorganic fertiliser to enhance the growth. Depending on how chanced I am, I apply Urea at 14 to 21 days.

And I apply NPK 15:15:15 at 28 days that's when Tokyo F1 starts flowering.

In addition, I spray liquid fertiliser too.

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 12:35pm On Oct 12, 2016

This is Day 14

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 12:38pm On Oct 12, 2016

The White substance beside the plants is the yet to dissolve granule urea.

Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 1:14pm On Oct 12, 2016

Following:
ehm...i sabi sey recession don catch ur keyboard,but pls make it educative by stating farm size in metre-square, specie of crop planted,spacing among others and don't forget to give me tasting o!

Noted. I will try

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by jephito(op): 1:24pm On Oct 12, 2016

Pests and diseases

To prevent and control diseases and pests, I use insecticide a d Fungicide.

I spray insecticide at 4-5 days interval starting from after planting/before the plants sprout till harvest.

Fungicide is sprayed in that manner too but I usually start spraying it when the crop is more than 10 days whether infection or not.

Prevention they say is better than cure.

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Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by Pavore9(mod): 2:17pm On Oct 12, 2016

We are learning. cheesy

Re: Pictures Of My Cucumber Farm From Land Preparation To Harvest by namuguibe(m): 3:34pm On Oct 12, 2016*

Kudos to the OP. This truly represents the future of Nigeria's vision of a much needed strong agro-economy. The more people that get involved in farming like the OP, the shorter time it would take to achieve the nation's goal of self-sufficiency in agriculture and quality nutrition.

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