Greetings Dear farmers and Gardeners! It has been a while since I visit my blog. This was due to pressure on work in school. It has also being a couple of days since I visited my farm. We just had a partial vacation break about 2 weeks to rest from our hard work. This has given me a chance to visit my farm today to see what was going on.
In fact it has been raining for the past weeks. This has made the ground very wet. The short distance to my farm has been flooded and I found it very difficult to find my way to the farm. I had to pass to a different route which my way very long before getting to the farm.
The the wind storm which took place last night made some of the stake provided for the yam fell on the ground. This may affect the yam tuber in terms of growing bigger.
It's very difficult too to uplift it. Not alone the yam which has been affected, I some some of the trees on the maize farm having fallen on the maize. I needed to cut them into pieces and convey them to appropriate place so that the maize would be relieved. There was little observable changes on the maize leaves when I saw some of the base leaves turning into yellowish. This might be the frequent rainfall experienced few days ago. The soil over here is very wet and some part of the land is more of silt - clay. It does become water logged after few rains. Also where there are crowded of cassava seems to over shadow the maize making the maize become lean in their growth. For the look of things, where the cassava are vegetatively growing, it would be very difficult for the maize to compete with them. Moreover, this variety of cassava is the early maturing one which grow very fast.
The half of the farm which was used to cultivate only maize were growing in healthy condition. The maize are about two weeks growth since I sown. There are no visible weeds competing them and I have to wait about a week or 2 before I spray selective herbicides to kill the weeds.
I have few varieties of local vegetables grown here. Some of these varieties of vegetables are local egg plants; the smaller fruiting ones. They taste very bitter but healthy for consumption. I don't actually know the name given to it in English. The fruits have emerge and maturing gradually. Some of the them have started ripening. You can check how they look like from here.
These Turkey berry vegetables have performed wonders, since I wasn't sure they would thrive well well. Most of them died except about 2 stands of plants. I had taken good care of them gradually with adoption of cultural practices needed for them to grow. With the 2 stands, they have bear many numerous fruits which I can get some to consume and and at the same time multiply.
I lastly visited few okro I grown in most vantage points here in the farm. Okro is one of the fruit which prefer moderate rain, not too much rainfall. During the bumper rain, most of the okro I sown died off leaving few of them. The few ones which survived have been taken care off. Most of them have bear fruits that I've started harvesting them.
The tomatoes are continuously fruiting. Looking at things, the plants are struggling to accommodate the frequent rainfall we are experiencing currently. But, I keep providing chemical to sustain and support them from destructions. I observed the invasion of pests and diseases which are threats to the tomatoes farm. I didn't get any observable pests and disease attacks.