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Kehfie:

Quite a neat farm you've got. Thanks for sharing your experience with these local veges. Is it too late to make good money from them?

You still have till April before the rain kicks in fully. Till then, vegetables still attracts price.

jidestroud:

Spot on.

Nonetheless, my Tete market seems to be growing daily. More people are beginning to appreciate it over here. Lol . I'm indirectly making them have it as the only option.

Tete market is growing because people are using it to replace expensive cabbage in salad.
I know Tete to be Amaranthus.

opes:


Tete market is growing because people are using it to replace expensive cabbage in salad.
I know Tete to be Amaranthus.

You are quite right. Nevertheless, you'll hardly ever see a typical Yoruba person go for Efo Tete. Most don't even know why they don't.

I have asked a few of the ladies who patronize me the very question on why they don't want Tete and the replies are astonishing . You hear them say things like, it's not sweet, it makes the face of the soup dull, it eats to much ingredients, it purges... A lady went as far as saying to much of eating Efo Tete leads to impotency in man; . I was bewildered, stunned & mentally hunted after hearing that!!! Me wey dey chop Efo Tete like craze.

Well, after probing further, I realized most of them haven't even tried it once. It's just what has been ed on and on amongst us. Lol...
How person go talk say Efo Tete no sweet? You no Sabi cook biko!!! Same Efo Tete I dey chop dey carry plate lick like a bush man that I am?

I noticed. My mum is the only one in her family that use efo tete. Most likely conditioning or upbringing.

jidestroud:


You are quite right. Nevertheless, you'll hardly ever see a typical Yoruba person go for Efo Tete. Most don't even know why they don't.

I have asked a few of the ladies who patronize me the very question on why they don't want Tete and the replies are astonishing . You hear them say things like, it's not sweet, it makes the face of the soup dull, it eats to much ingredients, it purges... A lady went as far as saying to much of eating Efo Tete leads to impotency in man; . I was bewildered, stunned & mentally hunted after hearing that!!! Me wey dey chop Efo Tete like craze.

Well, after probing further, I realized most of them haven't even tried it once. It's just what has been ed on and on amongst us. Lol...
How person go talk say Efo Tete no sweet? You no Sabi cook biko!!! Same Efo Tete I dey chop dey carry plate lick like a bush man that I am?

jidestroud:


You are quite right. Nevertheless, you'll hardly ever see a typical Yoruba person go for Efo Tete. Most don't even know why they don't.

I have asked a few of the ladies who patronize me the very question on why they don't want Tete and the replies are astonishing . You hear them say things like, it's not sweet, it makes the face of the soup dull, it eats to much ingredients, it purges... A lady went as far as saying to much of eating Efo Tete leads to impotency in man; . I was bewildered, stunned & mentally hunted after hearing that!!! Me wey dey chop Efo Tete like craze.

Well, after probing further, I realized most of them haven't even tried it once. It's just what has been ed on and on amongst us. Lol...
How person go talk say Efo Tete no sweet? You no Sabi cook biko!!! Same Efo Tete I dey chop dey carry plate lick like a bush man that I am?

Lol...I can't get the seeds from the market, I think Technisem is selling it in 5g and 100g. I don't even know how many seeds I can get from the 5g pack..

jidestroud:

This like I always say depends on your location and the type of seeds you want to buy. By the way, I want to assume you are asking about the vegetable seeds (Soko & Tete) right?

I'm staying around Alaba suru.yes, seeds like okra, pepper and tomato just for garden farming

please when is the best time for application of fertilizer if i am using urea. When and how do i apply?

jidestroud:


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

doctuw:
please when is the best time for application of fertilizer if i am using urea. When and how do i apply?

Sorry for the late response.

I'm pro-organic always and being that, urea is a no no for me. Nevertheless, with the way my planting is carried out, application of urea can be easily achieved if you MUST use fertilizer .

Attached are pictures of how you can apply in-between rolls. It's easier to apply when you plant like this. Just make depression in a straight line as seen in the picture, apply your urea very early in the morning or late in the evening, cover the urea with soil and wet, shikena.

But if you asked me, vegetables grow way too fast once you apply more than enough compost to the soil. It doesn't even have a downside so why risk nitrate poisoning? ... It's just like someone whom he or she wants to apply pesticides on green vegetables? When do you now withdraw with the fast rates of vegetable growth? I NEVER BUY vegetables in the market ever since I saw farmers use gamalin 20 in leafy vegetables!!! Haba!!!

Attached also is my endless supplies of Pig manure & chicken manure. Already composted and ready for instant application for my vegetables.

The routine is mixed while making the beds. I apply again 4/5 days after transplanting. Finally, I apply after every harvest up till the 4th harvest. This is the cycle I employed for the Soko vegetables.

Pic 1. Compost site
Pic 2. Dried compost manure.
N.B: Avoid using bare hands in touching the manure Biko, it's hygienic to get hand gloves Biko

Prices of Leafy Vegetables

As a last week, the prices of vegetables dipped a little. Prices of bundles of Soko we sell to farmers came all the way down from 8k to 5k. I guess it was because of the shakara rain that fell earlier upper week. Well, we are back to normal sales.

At least, let's milk this final Stages before the reservoirs of the gods are let opened upon earth.

thank you for the response. it will help me

jidestroud:


Sorry for the late response.

I'm pro-organic always and being that, urea is a no no for me. Nevertheless, with the way my planting is carried out, application of urea can be easily achieved if you MUST use fertilizer .

Attached are pictures of how you can apply in-between rolls. It's easier to apply when you plant like this. Just make depression in a straight line as seen in the picture, apply your urea very early in the morning or late in the evening, cover the urea with soil and wet, shikena.

But if you asked me, vegetables grow way too fast once you apply more than enough compost to the soil. It doesn't even have a downside so why risk nitrate poisoning? ... It's just like someone whom he or she wants to apply pesticides on green vegetables? When do you now withdraw with the fast rates of vegetable growth? I NEVER BUY vegetables in the market ever since I saw farmers use gamalin 20 in leafy vegetables!!! Haba!!!

How does a bundle look like pls. Thanks!!

Corrections:
How does a bundle look like pls. Thanks!!

Oopse!!!

Will pictures tomorrow. The new restrictions only permits 4 pics max a day.

@jidestroud can you add me up on WhatsApp ?
07053625944.

CallmeR2k:
@jidestroud can you add me up on WhatsApp ?
07053625944.

Hi, I have replied you on telegram & your mail respectively. Awaiting your response.

Sorry for my long write up on Tele

jidestroud:


Oopse!!!

Will pictures tomorrow. The new restrictions only permits 4 pics max a day.

Still waiting....

Corrections:



Still waiting....

I had to wait till another harvest. Most times, I sell directly to consumers.

I also heard some scale it to sell though I am not familiar with that.

For me, it's selling directly to consumers around, sell to market women in bundles, and that's all.

Just be conversant with market prices if you have any around you.

jidestroud:
I also heard some scale it to sell though I am not familiar with that.

For me, it's selling directly to consumers around, sell to market women in bundles, and that's all.

Just be conversant with market prices if you have any around you.

How do you now measure for your neighbours
Is it that you have a fixed measurement per price
Say maybe you sell 500,1000,1500
No in-between?

2. How do you even measure the bundle of you are not using scales sef ?x

CallmeR2k:


How do you now measure for your neighbours
Is it that you have a fixed measurement per price
Say maybe you sell 500,1000,1500
No in-between?

2. How do you even measure the bundle of you are not using scales sef ?x

Lol.
That's why I said you have to be conversant with market prices. For all those who come to the farm to buy for home consumption, you just cut same way it's being sold in the market, maybe just add a little to it as incentives. For me, I sell, 100, 200, 300, even as much as 5k to direct consumers. I already know what 200/500 naira worth of vegetables is in the market. So for someone buying 500naira worth, I simply sell 500naira worth of vegetables and add 100naira fisi, Jara, etc

Your 2nd question.
I have also answered you by saying, know what's obtainable in the markets. You can do your market survey by going as early as 6:30am on markets days (depending on the markets though). You will see some farmers come with their vegetables to sell to first buyers, who in turn resells. You will see how the bundles is being packaged.

Well, for me, I don Sabi the Market well well so from time to time, I know how to cut for market women coming to buy in bundles.

N.B: Some may offer to help you cut it sef. But mind you, you will be cheated from time to time . Las las, you sef will be become a master of measurement.
By looking at a bed sef, you can tell how much it will fetch you in returns.

jidestroud:


Lol.
That's why I said you have to be conversant with market prices. For all those who come to the farm to buy for home consumption, you just cut same way it's being sold in the market, maybe just add a little to it as incentives. For me, I sell, 100, 200, 300, even as much as 5k to direct consumers. I already know what 200/500 naira worth of vegetables is in the market. So for someone buying 500naira worth, I simply sell 500naira worth of vegetables and add 100naira fisi, Jara, etc

Your 2nd question.
I have also answered you by saying, know what's obtainable in the markets. You can do your market survey by going as early as 6:30am on markets days (depending on the markets though). You will see some farmers come with their vegetables to sell to first buyers, who in turn resells. You will see how the bundles is being packaged.

Well, for me, I don Sabi the Market well well so from time to time, I know how to cut for market women coming to buy in bundles.

N.B: Some may offer to help you cut it sef. But mind you, you will be cheated from time to time . Las las, you sef will be become a master of measurement.
By looking at a bed sef, you can tell how much it will fetch you in returns.

Those market women will teach you and you will learn 😂
This is experience talking, thanks man.
But I'll like the time of the day to discuss on telegram even 10 min is enough

jidestroud:


I had to wait till another harvest. Most times, I sell directly to consumers.

Wow!! You really trying. Thanks for the reply.

CallmeR2k:


Those market women will teach you and you will learn 😂
This is experience talking, thanks man.
But I'll like the time of the day to discuss on telegram even 10 min is enough

Most of the details needed is embedded in this thread.
In summary, for vegetables farming you need lots and lots of water & manpower depending on the size of your farm. According to you 1 plot is your target, get some capable hards. How you plant also determines your weed control system. For some, it is a straight long bed that runs across the farm. The vegetables are densely grown together. This helps manages the weeds but I am not much of a fan of that methods. I prefer transplanting on my preferred beds in rolls and columns. This is more tasking but it gives better yields against crowding the vegetables together.

Likewise, your soil also determines. If you need to amend the soil, get enough manure and do just that. Here in Ogun state, you know it's more of clay red soils, so I have had to amend my souls over the times of planting with lots and lots of compost that the planting area is so dark and full with activities in the soil. Then, water is key factor.

Please Note: The rains are coming back so returns of vegetables is greatly affected. Ewedu will be greatly reduced, shoko will go down & Tete too. Ugu will go down but still a good vegetable to look at, even at the end of it all, you get the seeds to sell.

As the rain approaches, I do most times just shift focus to other aspects of my farm; ofcos there's the Pig, Chickens, Ducks and my Plantains. Plantains is also a good business in the rains.

jidestroud:


Most of the details needed is embedded in this thread.
In summary, for vegetables farming you need lots and lots of water & manpower depending on the size of your farm. According to you 1 plot is your target, get some capable hards. How you plant also determines your weed control system. For some, it is a straight long bed that runs across the farm. The vegetables are densely grown together. This helps manages the weeds but I am not much of a fan of that methods. I prefer transplanting on my preferred beds in rolls and columns. This is more tasking but it gives better yields against crowding the vegetables together.

Likewise, your soil also determines. If you need to amend the soil, get enough manure and do just that. Here in Ogun state, you know it's more of clay red soils, so I have had to amend my souls over the times of planting with lots and lots of compost that the planting area is so dark and full with activities in the soil. Then, water is key factor.

Please Note: The rains are coming back so returns of vegetables is greatly affected. Ewedu will be greatly reduced, shoko will go down & Tete too. Ugu will go down but still a good vegetable to look at, even at the end of it all, you get the seeds to sell.

As the rain approaches, I do most times just shift focus to other aspects of my farm; ofcos there's the Pig, Chickens, Ducks and my Plantains. Plantains is also a good business in the rains.

Thanks

Damping Off in Nursery Beds

Good Evening & a beautiful Sunday to all. I will like to address an issue which over time has been popping up on my telegram with regards to nursery beds dying off after days or weeks of sprouting. Yes, I have had to deal with this abnormality most especially with my Soko nurseries. One week, they are all fine and the next day, it's like lapa-lapa (ringworm) caught my bed. . Most times I change my nursery area with few success recorded even so. But as time went by, I began to have a perfect understanding of what was happening with my nursery.

The Culprit - Damping Off
What I was experiencing wasn't some deliberate act of my village people to recover their lost benevolent Prince back to the village, neither was it some farm deity I was suppose to appease as a vegetable farmer. All that was happening was simply Damping off .

What's Damping Off?
Damping off is simple a disease of seedlings and the causative organism is a fungi or fungus brother sister . Oyinbo people even gave one of the major criminal responsible a name; Pythium species and Rhizoctonia solani, but them still get cousins & nephews that can also be responsible.
Once you think you have achieved a successful germination rate and want to start praising the seed vendor & variety you planted of achieving 90% to 95% success, these pathogens with turnup and do their thing. Next thing you start noticing;
1. Seedings thinning off at the base-line as if something deliberately cut it off
2. The base_line of the seedlings start rotting away.
3. Stunted growths in majority of the seedlings later on. Etc

Then the human nature in us starts calling our seeds plug frauds, thieves, barawos, Ole, 419 etc. calling them out for selling expired and bad seeds to us. . okoroemeke, emmaachile2, Jidestroud, Farmtech etc... una na fraud, you sold expired and bad seeds to us ...

The pathogens go just dey smile they tell me brother & sista, make una reduce the germination rate to 20%. At least them fit you that one hold body.

Causes of Damping Off

To be continued. . . (A little strong, but I'm in perfect health in Christ Name, Amen)

jidestroud:
Damping Off in Nursery Beds

Good Evening & a beautiful Sunday to all. I will like to address an issue which over time has been popping up on my telegram with regards to nursery beds dying off after days or weeks of sprouting. Yes, I have had to deal with this abnormality most especially with my Soko nurseries. One week, they are all fine and the next day, it's like lapa-lapa (ringworm) caught my bed. . Most times I change my nursery area with few success recorded even so. But as time went by, I began to have a perfect understanding of what was happening with my nursery.

The Culprit - Damping Off
What I was experiencing wasn't some deliberate act of my village people to recover their lost benevolent Prince back to the village, neither was it some farm deity I was suppose to appease as a vegetable farmer. All that was happening was simply Damping off .

What's Damping Off?
Damping off is simple a disease of seedlings and the causative organism is a fungi or fungus brother sister . Oyinbo people even gave one of the major criminal responsible a name; Pythium species and Rhizoctonia solani, but them still get cousins & nephews that can also be responsible.
Once you think you have achieved a successful germination rate and want to start praising the seed vendor & variety you planted of achieving 90% to 95% success, these pathogens with turnup and do their thing. Next thing you start noticing;
1. Seedings thinning off at the base-line as if something deliberately cut it off
2. The base_line of the seedlings start rotting away.
3. Stunted growths in majority of the seedlings later on. Etc

Then the human nature in us starts calling our seeds plug frauds, thieves, barawos, Ole, 419 etc. calling them out for selling expired and bad seeds to us. . okoroemeke, emmaachile2, Jidestroud, Farmtech etc... una na fraud, you sold expired and bad seeds to us ...

The pathogens go just dey smile they tell me brother & sista, make una reduce the germination rate to 20%. At least them fit you that one hold body.

Causes of Damping Off

To be continued. . . (A little strong, but I'm in perfect health in Christ Name, Amen)

You are healed by the stripes of Jesus name, Amen. Receive strength and be strong in health.

jidestroud:
Damping Off in Nursery Beds

Good Evening & a beautiful Sunday to all. I will like to address an issue which over time has been popping up on my telegram with regards to nursery beds dying off after days or weeks of sprouting. Yes, I have had to deal with this abnormality most especially with my Soko nurseries. One week, they are all fine and the next day, it's like lapa-lapa (ringworm) caught my bed. . Most times I change my nursery area with few success recorded even so. But as time went by, I began to have a perfect understanding of what was happening with my nursery.

The Culprit - Damping Off
What I was experiencing wasn't some deliberate act of my village people to recover their lost benevolent Prince back to the village, neither was it some farm deity I was suppose to appease as a vegetable farmer. All that was happening was simply Damping off .

What's Damping Off?
Damping off is simple a disease of seedlings and the causative organism is a fungi or fungus brother sister . Oyinbo people even gave one of the major criminal responsible a name; Pythium species and Rhizoctonia solani, but them still get cousins & nephews that can also be responsible.
Once you think you have achieved a successful germination rate and want to start praising the seed vendor & variety you planted of achieving 90% to 95% success, these pathogens with turnup and do their thing. Next thing you start noticing;
1. Seedings thinning off at the base-line as if something deliberately cut it off
2. The base_line of the seedlings start rotting away.
3. Stunted growths in majority of the seedlings later on. Etc

Then the human nature in us starts calling our seeds plug frauds, thieves, barawos, Ole, 419 etc. calling them out for selling expired and bad seeds to us. . okoroemeke, emmaachile2, Jidestroud, Farmtech etc... una na fraud, you sold expired and bad seeds to us ...

The pathogens go just dey smile they tell me brother & sista, make una reduce the germination rate to 20%. At least them fit you that one hold body.

Causes of Damping Off

To be continued. . . (A little strong, but I'm in perfect health in Christ Name, Amen)

Bro how far Na, how is your health. Hope you are going well

Doing absolutely great!!!

Thanks all.