post some month ago.Good day everyone, today I'll love to take you through the piece of land i intend on planting my maize, in participation to the maize Challenge by @felixxx as shared here on his
Although I would have love to do the planting on my farm land located in the village where I teach on per-time, but school is presently on vacation, so I decided to use the piece of land in my backyard, where I usually do some minimal plantation of crops and herbal medicinal planting.
The size of the piece of land is a quarter of a plot of land, that's
Most part of this piece was occupied with the cassava I planted on it since last year, so I had to first harvest the cassava by cutting it log, and pulling it out.
My junior Brother helping me with the Harvesting.
It would have been a more bountiful harvest than this, but the farmland is frequently terrorise by rodent and goat who usually wants to get a taste of the leaves and other plant I have in the land.
This lead me into building a fence around the backyard, with old roofing pan shit and wood, before I plant the maize, I'll still need to erect some falling part of the fence, else they will invade it once again, and for the rodent, I might need to poison some food to chase them far away.
So here is my first report card in my journey for the maize Challenge, and in my next content, I'll try and add some fertilizer from a chicken poultry and as well erect the fence.
TOOLS
For this project I use less tool and more of manpower.
- Cutlass: The cutlass is the only tool I use in cutting the log of the cassava before harvesting it, since I usually regularly uproot weeds growing around the cassava, that's why every is neat and needed no weeding.
Here I place the log of the cassava, I can't sell most of it to those who want plant cassava, and I'll be leaving some for myself in case I'll need to plant some too.
Here is the piece of land after clearing, now I'll easily proceed to the next stage of the planting.
Here is the fence made from old roofing shit and wood, bordering the piece of land.
here is all my harvest.
Thanks for coming with me thus far.
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That a lot of cassava. Glad to see you participate in the maize challenge. Wish you best of luck @vickoly
Thanks so much Brother.
You are welcome buddy
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STOPThe cassava did well, seems you added some manure while cultivating it?
I remember processing this cassava to Garri and fufu back then in the village with my grandma
Good job vic👍
Thanks so much dear NK, I didn't add any manure, seems the land was just good and rich, and that's why it yielded well.
It's good to know my post brought back some good old memories with Grandma then.
Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your thoughts, have a blessed week.
Your cassava did so well. Well done on the harvest. I remember growing up in the village and being exposed to a lot farming activities, not that I participated because I’ve always been a lazy bones. I still remember the entire process of processing cassava into garri or fufu.
Nice job. Good luck on your next planting agenda.
Hmm such a beautiful memories of good old days, the processing isn't that easy, so you ain't lazy for not taken part in it, thanks so much for your kind words.
Yo this is really good. I remember harvesting cassava back then in the village and processing it into garri.
You are doing good
Thanks so much for your wonderful words and sharing your previous experience, have a blessed day.
Wow. I usually run from farm work because of I am the laZy kind of person. I no sabi do work with physical power but if it comes to brain power then I can do that.
Please what’s the red stains on your white shirt?
That's the uniqueness of we human for you, we all have our areas of specialties and ones we discover our favourite niche, it's best we stick to it and as well make sure we do our best in being excellent at it.
The red stripes ain't stain, that was how the jersey was make.
It's was worn by Arsenal FC as their away kit last season.
Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your thoughts, have a blessed and productive week ahead.
Nice work man. This just reminded me of my last semester exams when we were asked to discuss the processes involved in making garri from cassava.
Thanks for your kind words and compliment.