HARVEST DURING PLANTING (DRY) SEASON...

If you know you can grow food, no matter how small the scale, abeg o, do the needful. We believe God for genuinely good leaders in Nigeria - but even with clear conscience  and the best of  intentions,  political leaders may not be able to avert some food crises. Remember that the best of men is still man.

Having said that, let me gist you about happenings in my very mini-garden. It's February ending  going into March- this period s about the peak of dry season in Southwest but I am getting and will get some harvests of crops this dry season- this is the period when farmers generally prepare or start planting.

The corn cobs have emerged in my mini garden this dry season. The pineapple is getting bigger, the chilli peppers and snake (paste) tomatoes  and leafy vegetables have really helped this period of naira scarcity - when even if you have some change in your bank account, it's no guarantee you will be able to buy needed groceries when you want - you grab?. 

So even this mini-garden harvests helped relieved the tension a whole lot - that is not to even mention the herbs in the garden made into teas and soft drinks .

To fertilise the garden crops I use kitchen wastes or even some unused plants in the garden - last week I manure the sack of  soil the  maize  plants are growing in with mango leaves.

Apart from the mango plant I intentionally cultivated, two other mango seedlings are still growing. Since I want my corn to be sweet, I decided to also use mango leaves in addition to other wastes - soya bean though very good source of nitrogen is not really sweet to the taste - I would henceforth try to use more of sweet wastes e.g.tigernuts chaff, coconut chaff, sweet fruit wastes  to manure the corn - if you can control outcomes in a small garden, you also can in a big garden or large farm.

Just remember that in organic growing of crops, you need a whole lot of patience.

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PINEAPPLE PLANT NOW FRUITING IN MY GARDEN

I did complain about a pineapple plant in my garden which had refused to fruit after about two years. So I started cutting off it's parts about two weeks ago - mostly the leaves (hard, fibrous part) to manure some other crops e.g. maize plants.

 
To my surprise, some days ago, after I started decapitating the plant, the pineapple shoot emerged  - the fruit is growing.
What I am wondering now is if the emergence of this fruit after two long years is because I started cutting it's leaves off....Uuummm... since I have only one pineapple plant growing in a sack, I don't have another pineapple plant to test this hypothesis- even if I plant pineapple today I  would have to wait for another two years to experience that - meanwhile I want to go study herbal medicine.

 
Does anyone have pineapple plants of about two years  old and would like to cut some of the leaves to test this hypothesis? 😀 would be glad to know your finding.

OTHER GARDEN GIST
The leaves of the rounded tomatoes I planted are drying up.  Only one of the four plants produced few tomato  fruits  which I have harvested - I used in frying eggs and garnishing sauce.

 
No wonder those who grow tomatoes in dry season do so in a green house or under shades.

Rather than do nothing as the tomato plant wither, I have started  covering the plants with a cloth in the afternoons. I am also intensely applyling organic nitrogen source such as bean peels and soya bean chaff to manure. Let's see if it will work.

 
Applying this organic nitrogen sources intensely has worked well with pepper plant in the garden - that pepper plant has fruited and fruited relatively well. The nitrogen sources also help to make the drying ewedu leaves turn back to lush green.

 
Waiting to see the outcome  of covering the tomato plants - this mini-garden is primarily for experimenting afterall  - mini-garden researcher thinking deep.

#dryseasonplanting
#pineappleplant
#pineapplenowfruiting
#pureagriculture
#agricutureversusgoodhealth
#developingorganichairtreatment
#minigardenresearch
#growingcornindryseason
#growingcornallyearround
#throughbredseeds
#purebredseeds
#agricresearches

PINEAPPLE  PLANT NOW FRUITING IN MY GARDEN

I did complain about a pineapple plant in my garden which had refused to fruit after about two years. So I started cutting off it's parts about two weeks ago - mostly the leaves (hard, fibrous part) to manure some other crops e.g. maize plants.
To my surprise, some days ago, after I started decapitating the plant, the pineapple shoot emerged  - the fruit is growing.
What I am wondering now is if the emergence of this fruit after two long years is because I started cutting it's leaves off....Uuummm... since I have only one pineapple plant growing in a sack, I don't have another pineapple plant to test this hypothesis- even if I plant pineapple today I  would have to wait for another two years to experience that - meanwhile I want to go study herbal medicine.
Does anyone have pineapple plants of about two years  old and would like to cut some of the leaves to test this hypothesis? 😀 would be glad to know your finding.

OTHER GARDEN GIST
The leaves of the rounded tomatoes I planted are drying up.  Only one of the four plants produced three tomato  fruits  which I have harvested - I think I used one to get eggs and another to garnish sauce. The third I deposited into the sack of soil.
No wonder those who grow tomatoes in dry season do so in a green house or under shades-
Rather than do nothing, I have started  covering the plants with a cloth in the afternoons. I am also intensely applyling organic nitrogen source such as beans peels and soya bean chaff to manure. Let's see if it will work. Applying this organic nitrogen sources intensely has worked well with pepper plant in the garden - that plant has fruited and fruited relatively well. The nitrogen sources also helps to make the drying ewedu leaves turn back to lush green.

 
Waiting to see the outcome  of covering the tomato plants - this mini-garden is primarily for experimenting  - Mini-Garden Researcher thinking deep.

#dryseasonplanting
#pineappleplant
#pineapplenowfruiting
#pureagriculture
#agricutureversusgoodhealth
#developingorganichairtreatment
#minigardenresearch
#growingcornindryseason
#growingcornallyearround
#throughbredseeds
#purebredseeds
#agriculturalmedicine
#gardeningindryseason
#growingcropsindryseason
#growingcropsinsacks
#growingmaizeinsacks
#spaceconstrainedgarden
#gardeningincementedpremises
#gardeninginsacks
#growingplantsinsacks
#minigarden #urbangarden #urbangardening
#minigardening #integratedgardening #gardening #gardeninginsmallspaces #integratedgardeninginsmallspaces #spaceconstrainedurbangardening
#intercroppinginsoilsack.
#growingeweduinsack

GARDENING REDUCES FRUSTRATION OF NAIRA, FOOD SCARCITY

I couldn't help laughing at myself - I heard a hawker chanting 'buy peppers, buy tomatoes' while I was rounding up today's morning work in the garden.

I needed some peppers and tomatoes for stew to go with white rice.

I was already making the move to go call the hawker when I remembered I had no physical cash. This set of hawkers don't accept transfers for payment.

Besides, the quantity I needed was small and wasn't worth making a transfer  with the possibility of not going through due to network issues - even if the hawker  would accept electronic payment.

Feeling somewhat frustrated, I went to get the seeds of snake tomatoes I had and planted some more. I dont have seeds of round tomatoes.

Then I started laughing at myself  - planting snake tomatoes today which would take at  the very least eight weeks or at most 16weeks  to harvest won't solve my need for stew today.

But  then I thought ''do you know what problems may be at that time?' Uuuummm... while we keep hoping  for the best, it is better to live prepared... today, the problem is scarcity of legal tender to buy food, tomorrow  who knows? 

While we do hope there wont be serious scarcity of food in our country, let's learn to read handwriting on the wall.

Not everyone can or should grow food but if many who are able, do so, then there may not really be any serious  scarcity - remember that scarcity occurs when demand is far higher than supply.

Anyway I still had  a sumptuous  meal by combining some green chilli peppers in the garden (no ripe tomatoes in ny garden and unripe tomatoes don't taste nice but unripe chilli peppers grown through organic means taste very great )  with some items at home  - simple, not sophisticated and it was still a very delicious  sumptuous  balanced diet meal - it contains carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals and I drank water😁

Imagine waiting for transfer to go through to buy meat when hungry😃or looking for POS Agent with cash and reasonable charges. No be everyday we go chop meat before food go balance  - hey!Come to think of It, if you can rear livestock as well, that can meet some of your household's meat demand  -mini-gardener thinking deep.

#dryseasonplanting
#pureagriculture
#agricutureversusgoodhealth
#developingorganichairtreatment
#minigardenresearch
#growingcornindryseason
#growingcornallyearround
#throughbredseeds
#purebredseeds
#agriculturalmedicine
#gardeningindryseason
#growingcropsindryseason
#growingcropsinsacks
#growingmaizeinsacks
#spaceconstrainedgarden
#gardeningincementedpremises
#gardeninginsacks
#growingplantsinsacks
#minigarden #urbangarden #urbangardening
#minigardening #integratedgardening #gardening #gardeninginsmallspaces #integratedgardeninginsmallspaces #spaceconstrainedurbangardening
#intercroppinginsoilsack.
#growingeweduinsack