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Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 12:25pm On Jun 10, 2016 |
knostbrown01:It depends on the crop. You can can use fresh blood meal from slaughter house. Mix one liter of it in four liters of water and apply as soil drench. Ugu loves this like made. 1 Like |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by knostbrown01(m): 12:52pm On Jun 10, 2016 |
organicfoods:thanks bro |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 11:03pm On Jun 21, 2016 |
One new trick I learn is sterilizing the soil by heating. This kills the seeds of the weeds and your cucumber grows only in the sack...When you have a very healthy plants, pests and disease will find it difficult to cause serious damage. Using Farmers Fertilizer plus some of my other organic nutrients has really helped. 3 Likes
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Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by Mercie123(f): 12:24pm On Jun 22, 2016 |
organicfoods: Wooooowwww!!! Your fruits look amazing. I guess Soil Sterilization is another topic you must teach us o. I'm completing my first ever Lacto Bacillus production today - kudos to your mentor-ship. God bless you bro! 1 Like |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 9:10am On Jun 23, 2016 |
Mercie123:Great to hear about your progress. The secrets about farming is growing from small to big, this way you learn what works and what doesn't work and grow from point of immense strength, rather than starting big and crashing big. Soil sterilization and weed control in organic farm is one post I will do soon...cheers wish you great success. 1 Like |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by Cocoboms(m): 2:33am On Jun 28, 2016 |
organicfoods: Hello sir, you are truly inspiring. I have read some of your posts fully on nairaland in a few hours and I must say this, you have educated me a lot. I truly wish to grow organically. Im currently on a sack farming project for a type of melon in the cucumber family. I'm definitely trying the blood meal on some of my plants this week. I would try making your other beautiful preparations to use in my small project. I tried using Chlorpyrifos just once and the bees avoided pollinating my earlier melon plants for one week before they came back, even though all d terrible pests were dead. I learnt my lesson. Before then I had been looking for where to buy Neem oil as I had researched on it but nowhere to buy it in my locality. I'm in a village in ekiti on nysc. But with your free willing ingenuity, I'm gonna prepare my own dogonyaro leaf and bark extract. I hope to learn more from you. God bless! Seriously and intensely following!!! |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by cleavon(m): 2:56am On Jun 28, 2016 |
Following |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by Dhoneys: 12:11pm On Jun 28, 2016 |
Am learning seriously |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 10:19am On Jul 02, 2016 |
Cocoboms:You can call me up for the neem oil. A liter is 2800...08034342637 |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by john410(m): 12:30pm On Jul 02, 2016 |
I love every bit of these. nice one op.kip the good work. |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by shinehills: 4:17am On Jul 05, 2016 |
organicfoods:op how is neem oil prepared and what is the measurement to be applied . |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 6:20pm On Jul 05, 2016 |
shinehills:Dried neem seed is cold pressed to obtain the oil...But you need a lot of seeds though. 1 Like |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by kmillionaire2002: 5:37pm On Jul 06, 2016 |
Hello, my pilot project one. How can I save this cucumber? pilot project 2 has started showing the same symptoms. kindly help Sir. Thanks.
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Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 10:41am On Jul 10, 2016 |
kmillionaire2002:Use ginger garlic extract to treat it. where is your location? |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by kmillionaire2002: 1:39am On Jul 11, 2016 |
Thanks. Idi iroko, Ogun state. |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by efe2016(m): 3:38pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
shinehills: @organicfoods Hi,sent u a mail request,want to know ur farm address in ibadan,want to come for visit cheers |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by biggal: 3:42pm On Jul 17, 2016 |
Can I order d seeds from aliexpress cos I need few to experiment expecially tomato n cucumber |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 11:24pm On Jul 17, 2016 |
biggal:Seeds are available locally... |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 11:28pm On Jul 17, 2016 |
efe2016:Can you check your mail...I replied some emails now. |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by biggal: 6:25am On Jul 18, 2016 |
Where can I get gud hybrid of tomato n cucumber abt 50 only ph resident |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 12:23am On Jul 28, 2016 |
Handling Nocturnal Visitor called Snail on your sack Farm. One major pest of the cucumber are the tiny snails. They arrive at night in droves and feed on the seedlings and disappear early in the morning without any trace. They are a serious menace for the farmer, especially when they turn your seedlings into a good source of nutrients to balance their diet. If you don't pay attention very carefully, you will quickly admit that some evil forces are at work, because they stealthy operate at night. One very good way to reduce their population is to hand pick them. That means you have to keep night vigil to catch them red handed. Another very effective method to stop them in their quest of making salad out of your young cukes seedlings is to ground some egg shell and spread it round your plant...They don't like crawling on egg shell, they detest it with passion. This way they won't pick interest in your cucumbers any more, instead they will turn to so some other weeds to balance their vegetable needs. 5 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by Nobody: 8:53pm On Aug 10, 2016 |
Kudos organic foods. Great looking cucumbers. I started growing in the soil but downey mildew and fruit flies did me in. So I'm considering waiting for the raining season to end , I'll plant in sacks with my own soil mix. One thing I read that really helps reduce disease in cucumbers is to prune each plant to about 2 vines. This helps with aeration and would reduce crowding. Another interesting thing I'm currently trying to put into practice is to use aspirin. A study done in University of Rhode Island using aspirin on vegatable plants evey three weeks showed hreat improvement in the plants. Apparently aspirin boosts the plants' immunity, helping to fight disease as per prevention and in some cases reversal of the disease. Finally can you please educate me on how to culture lacto bacillus? Or is have you posted it previously? I'd like to know. Thank you and God bless your efforts 2 Likes |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 10:31pm On Aug 14, 2016 |
docfarmer3:Very true about aspirin. You can actually plant during the raining season. You just need to manage the fast leaching of nitrogen and aeration by applying nutrients rich in Nitrogen like blood meal immediately after some heavy rain fall. I will be doing some article on controlling pests on the farm soon. Good bless your quest. |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by godwinufi68(m): 8:34am On Aug 18, 2016 |
organicfoods:gudm @ our great op, sir this aspirin U re talking abt is it the drugs we normally buy from chemists? If yes, how do we apply it? Tnks 4 ur mentorship |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by organicfoods(m): 1:03am On Aug 22, 2016 |
kmillionaire2002:Prune affected leaves and keep far away from the farm. Leaching of nutrients due to heavy rain is a major cause. Try and fertilize very well...Fresh blood meal will come to the rescue for the Nitrogen deficiency due to leaching. 1 Like |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by phillings247: 11:11am On Aug 23, 2016 |
i really appreciate ur openness on this thread.pls,when selling how many fruits do u stock per bag nd how much is a bag.can u also give d cost analysis of farming 440 sacks using ur model but with 2 vines /sack |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by rem1: 3:13pm On Aug 23, 2016 |
We give glory to God for successful work. |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by Chigorkizz(m): 3:37pm On Aug 23, 2016 |
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Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by Nobody: 3:54pm On Aug 23, 2016 |
organicfoods:how long does it take from planting time to harvest time? and how much would it cost to grow and maintain a 100 sac farm? 1 Like |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by Lexusgs430: 3:56pm On Aug 23, 2016 |
We cannot all be farmers, keep farming, we would keep buying!!! Afterall what use is a farmer with no customers? 4 Likes |
Re: "Vertical Sack Farming" My Pains, My Joy! My Experience So Far By: Organicfoods by wellmax(m): 4:03pm On Aug 23, 2016 |
Wonderful thread, I have learnt a lot . Thanks |
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