Let's bring back 🐝🐝🐝 to our gardens.
Rain water is full of life we really need to harvest it. Imagine just a few showers in one week and the whole farm and surrounding areas have turned green, It's really very appealing to the eyes.
Another Apple fruit season missed, I had hoped to share the flowering and gradual load of fruits on this Apple tree in our front yard, but was let down by technicalities here and there reported by my associate on ground but at least she managed to send me this clip with what I gathered to be the last fruits to mature. I had wanted to monitor and see how the fruits would behave as in transitioning from green to red like I was told they did last season remember this is a grafted one. First season two years ago all fruits were green to the last harvest then in between the next fruiting they changed to red . Though I've been away for long and have not tasted them yet, I'm happy my people home are enjoying them. Have you planted yours yet if not what are you waiting for? Before you know I will be having another one soon , :-) :-) . Please plant a fruit tree in that space around your home.
We planted three of these Malabar Chestnut trees and now are baring fruits, can't wait to taste them. But all these are sampled fruit trees planting projects we are yet to scale things up now that we know that almost 95 percent of all sampled projects seam to work well in our soils what's left is getting professional guidelines on how best to plan our fruit forests and we shall be good to go. Remember if you got space , plant a tree that will benefit you in many ways. In our case we target shades, wind breaking and fruits. How about you?
It's been awhile since we last posted an update here please bare with us. The January heat is still strong here but since we are naturally practicing our farm activities, we are not disturbed much by the heat we still command a lot of green in the gardens. When you often use chemical applications over time , in such hot seasons you're soils burn up first and water retention is lost. Another advantage is mixed cropping which gives shade to plants hence keeping off the scorching sun heat there by creating a moistened bedding for the plants in the gardens.
It's usually not good to plant sugarcanes in the banana gardens but we planted this type on the trench hips besides the banana gardens so they can tap on the run off water that we harvest in them reason being we haven't decided where to plant them yet and this kind sugarcanes are so rare to find. But all in all they have thrived but soon we shall be moving them. We enjoy them as we work for they are so refreshing.
I've never tested a Soursop a.k.a ( Ekitafeeli locally) for as long as I've lived, so as usual after learning about it's health benefits, i chose to plant three of them but we were only able to secure this and will be adding more Soursop fruit trees soon it's fruiting now and we are happy to know it can survive a guarantee for us to plant even more.
"FARMING IN ABSENTIA" When we moved from back and front yard gardening and went into mixed farming, we knew nothing of what or where to start. So what we did was to do test sampling on food crops and cash crops but why would we do such, you may wonder? I was set to travel and there wasn't a plan and good management to run all the farm activities things were tight and the land had been over used so we wanted to see what's left of it so we chose to grow a variety of things as a testing and fact finding drive for three years believe me we've done that and have achieved more than we expected. Most times distant farming comes with lots of challenges but we thank God we've realized great achievements workers too can be hard to manage but we are grateful they didn't let us down. We started with a donation of100 coffee trees that was given to us and as we post this, the coffee berries are about to ripen. The soil is good for almost all food crops and cash crops. What's the way forward? Between 2019-2022, we shall have restructured and zeroed up on what our specialities will be for the future. If God permits we shall be a great eco and a Permaculture farm.
Buying fruits got me thinking I went out and planted our own this would save us some bucks and yes I went on to shop around and even raised avocado seedlings and the rest is history. Here we got 15 Jack fruit trees ,30 Avocados, some two grafted Mangoes ,six guava trees and the list goes on though the video couldn't cover all hey not forgetting the sour soup tree :-) :-)
When ever I receive news of new births @ the farm, I can't stop thanking lord for his faithfulness and he has blessed us indeed. I now believe strongly in starting small then grow along the path. These grass fed goats give me greater joy. The year is ending make plans to raise yours next year.
We are graciously happy that our new banana plantation is taking shape thanks to the early rains that got us well prepared. Now bedding the garden with mulch to retain moisture so as not to stress our banana plants in this coming hot season of late December and the whole of January. The dream is on no retreat no surrender :-) :-) . N.B , If you haven't been able to plant this season , prepare now for next season remember the early bird does what.......? You know better.
