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bluefete wrote:Kitchen Garden farmer here:
Advice needed:
1. So I put this sweet potato in some manure but left it above ground. It has started to sprout some very green leaves. The leaves are growing like a vine.
My question is: Do sweet potatoes grow above ground? How long would I have to wait?
2. I started to grow some sweet peppers. They started flowering and then I noticed the tree wilting badly.
Is this a normal thing?
3. I just planted some ginger in the ground. I am hoping for the best. What is the time to maturity?
Ripe Chenette wrote:bluefete wrote:Kitchen Garden farmer here:
Advice needed:
1. So I put this sweet potato in some manure but left it above ground. It has started to sprout some very green leaves. The leaves are growing like a vine.
My question is: Do sweet potatoes grow above ground? How long would I have to wait?
2. I started to grow some sweet peppers. They started flowering and then I noticed the tree wilting badly.
Is this a normal thing?
3. I just planted some ginger in the ground. I am hoping for the best. What is the time to maturity?
The sweet potato go spread out a good bit if you pull one out you go see it starting to root. when the vines turn yellow then you know is time to harvest.
Hwells wrote:thread inactive boi weii, if i want to get a wasa connection on a land for agriculture, any adivce?
land is 2 acres no property on it, surrounding area is bush, however it is located along the main road through the area.
88sins wrote:Hwells wrote:thread inactive boi weii, if i want to get a wasa connection on a land for agriculture, any adivce?
land is 2 acres no property on it, surrounding area is bush, however it is located along the main road through the area.
Take meh advice
Don't tell them it's for agriculture. Just go with the residential connection, it will cost you less. tell them is one small shack and it only have a pit latrine and one standpipe and an outdoor cooking area.
After they run the lines to the property, buy tanks and store water like yuh going mad.
Wasa will lease you permission to pull water from a nearby river, for a minimum charge of 120/month, and that goes up according to the size of the land you plan to irrigate. I don't recall that wasa has an actual agricultural connection from the main supply lines.
Hwells wrote:
area is not nearby any housing areas, nor near my current home location. So buying tanks for water storage might have a problem with theft if someone decide to pop up and thief them as they would literally be just sitting there in the bush for the taking. it might even be visible from the road side.
unless i cover it up good with some bush
88sins wrote:Hwells wrote:
area is not nearby any housing areas, nor near my current home location. So buying tanks for water storage might have a problem with theft if someone decide to pop up and thief them as they would literally be just sitting there in the bush for the taking. it might even be visible from the road side.
unless i cover it up good with some bush
ibc storage is a good idea but ppl teefin dat too eh.
could put a game camera or two up in a tree nearby to watch them, something with motion sensors that can take stills and video.
at least if someone does steal them you will have the footage with vehicle numbers & their faces so you could know who & you can decide the next step.
Nutrients needed by Plant
• In the soil before planting – 12:24:12 + TE
• While growing – 20:10:10 + TE
• While flowering and fruiting – 9:6:24 + TE
• Seedlings after they are transplanted– 20:20:20 + TE (equal parts of all N: P: K but at a high level and soluble so plant can access it easily.
https://agriculture.gov.tt/publications/fertilizing-and-weed-control/
maj. tom wrote:perhaps they need a certain fertilizer mix at this point. Or manure and molehill them up so they can get trunk support. I know peas are like that, where they need moleing to get past the first stage.
Look i found this from the Min. of Agriculture:Nutrients needed by Plant
• In the soil before planting – 12:24:12 + TE
• While growing – 20:10:10 + TE
• While flowering and fruiting – 9:6:24 + TE
• Seedlings after they are transplanted– 20:20:20 + TE (equal parts of all N: P: K but at a high level and soluble so plant can access it easily.
https://agriculture.gov.tt/publications/fertilizing-and-weed-control/
edit: I've been checking a few websites and they say that dragon fruit is a cactus so don't water it too often, make sure there's good soil drainage (this is what the molehill will help with), soil should be a bit sandy and slightly acidic, and that dragon fruit plants are climbers so give them a stake or something else to climb on. Hope this will help.
maj. tom wrote:The soil by you probably very fertile. And crop rotation and soil tilling helps restore the balance. And you probably being modest; farming and being successful takes a lot of skill, knowledge and hard work.
Check the Ministry of Agriculture website, they have publications for some of the crops you posted there. Rel thing we didn't know. https://agriculture.gov.tt/category/crops-publications/ Page 2 has hot peppers. They have videos too on how to identify what nutrients the soil is lacking through the plant leaves, etc.
NR8 wrote:What size pot do you have the sorrel in?
pugboy wrote:how do you mix the soap water for spraying on blight white furry bugs?
88sins wrote:pugboy wrote:how do you mix the soap water for spraying on blight white furry bugs?
Boi I hear sone people say dat does work, and others say it don't. For my yard, I tried it a few times years ago on the few trees and plants in the yard with that problem and saw no results worthy of mention.
Since then I switched to using permethrin concentrate. It's a synthetic version of a chemical compound found in the chrysanthemum plant. It cheap, don't need to use much for it to be effective or make enough mixture to cover a whole yard and it's very effective on practically all insects and arachnids.
Haven't had any problem with insects or other pests or parasites since I started using it years ago, other than dem blasted caterpillar eating out meh pakchoi. I don't use it on short crops tho, only on trees and decorative plants, but that's just my own preference.
75 ml of dish soap per liter water.pugboy wrote:how do you mix the soap water for spraying on blight white furry bugs?
adnj wrote:75 ml of dish soap per liter water.pugboy wrote:how do you mix the soap water for spraying on blight white furry bugs?
JDM_23 wrote:Anyone inside here does sell seasoning such as celery and chive, if so exactly how much is included in a bundle.
88sins wrote:JDM_23 wrote:Anyone inside here does sell seasoning such as celery and chive, if so exactly how much is included in a bundle.
define "bundle"
it have ppl selling in bulk (all you get is chive alone or celery alone )and it have ppl selling retail a little of one & the other & a few other types of seasonings in the small bundles ppl buy to cook food home
JDM_23 wrote:88sins wrote:JDM_23 wrote:Anyone inside here does sell seasoning such as celery and chive, if so exactly how much is included in a bundle.
define "bundle"
it have ppl selling in bulk (all you get is chive alone or celery alone )and it have ppl selling retail a little of one & the other & a few other types of seasonings in the small bundles ppl buy to cook food home
Sorry about that I am talking about wholesale bulk ones like in the farmers markets not the retail ones the market stalls sell.
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