Updates Of Visit To My Maize Farm : Two Months & Ten Days After Sowing, Cobs Forming
Greetings Dear Gardeners. It another blessed Weekend. Hope you Guys are doing well and with your gardens flourishing in good health. I'm really excited to be with you again as I share the state of my maize farm. It has been a couple of week since I shared my garden updates. So let me quickly jump into the good news lol 😂!
It's exactly 2 months 10 days when I sowed my first maizes. Actually it took me 3 conservative days to complete the whole farm sowing with the maize grains. As a farmer, I keep all farm records in my budget and inventory books to know the cost is inputs, production and laborer used. So, I recorded the exact day for all the time of sowing, application of weedicides and other cultural practices in the farm.
We are on mini holiday, this has given me ample time to visit the farm frequently. It has been raining dogs and cats for this week, preventing most farm activities and most farmers are affected to go to their farms. The intensity of the rain was very high so I have been in the house for the week days. I'm not worried since about 99% of the farming activities and other cultural practices have been done. What I'm waiting for is to experience more rain for bumper harvest of my maizes. Lo and behold Yesterday being Saturday, I visited my maizes farm. It's time to celebrate 🥳 with you Guys! What I had prayed for and looked for all these while is coming true; my maizes have been able to produced larger cobs. I was really happy 😊 to see this sign.
I walked through the whole farm, mann; I can tell you that the maizes have averagely produced sizable cobs. The least are those bearing one cob on the stand of the maize, while others producing as many as 2 and 3 cobs on the stand of the maize. As I had mentioned, the basic conditions that enable maizes to produce higher yields are : good nutrients content, farm sanitation, heavy rainfall and other cultural practices like pruning and earthing up. Actually in maizes farm, what is common that we often do is weeding, fertilizer application and irrigation. Over here in Ghana, irrigation system is commonly done in large scale farming or those who produce in large quantities, state farms and other commercial farms. Pruning isn't commonly done since maizes doesn't produce more leaves at the base of the plants. We don't often do the pruning. Due to the ploughing of the land earthing up isn't often done. What we often do the earthing up is yam, tomatoes and potatoes farms.
Did I even do extra work in the farm this morning?? No more tedious work was done, but this was some corrections, cutting of some few shrubs which couldn't die when I sprayed with the weedicides. This is normal in every maize farms. That's obviously one shortfall of using weedicides to spray, you can't get all the weeds killed 100%. In the cause of spraying, we might missed some portion due to rush and oversight. If we fail to formulate the chemical well, we can end up having some places not captured. This shows us that after applying the weedicides for some weeks when it has taken effects, we must still go round the farm to make all the necessary corrections in all the farm before we can wait for harvest. With all these things done coupling with good rain, we can have bumper harvest.
There are other side of benefits that I'm getting lately! The cocoyam which emerged after burning the debris for showing of the maize. These Cocoyam appeared throughout the farm so I decided not to kill all of them with the weedicides. I left some small portion of the land so that I can reserve for their leaves. Their leaves are very nutritious for making stew and soup. They have veins throughout the leaves and these veins contain cellulose for energy building. They are noted to also contain iron supplement for blood formation. Unfortunately, a lot of these cocoyam were killed when I applied the weedicides, but the place I left to keep them weren't sprayed.
I harvested these cocoyam leaves to be used to prepare stew for "yam ampesi"( cooked yam). The cocoyam leaves are grinded with pepper and mixed with some garnished fish. When you add few cooking oil, it tastes very palatable.
I couldn't leave the farm without checking up my tomatoes I transplanted and the Okro I sowed. The too much rain has made the colour of the maize to changed. It's becoming yellowish. This isn't coronation that has set in. For the first time when you sow tomato it has to recover first before becoming normal. They also need some fertilizer application, but that would be done later. Actually, I don't have much work to be done again so I had to leave the farm for my house. Thanks for your attention!
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Rain is the BOSS of all gardeners 🤣, and only vacay we actually have during season!
Your plantation is doing great, corn adores rain, you really was blessed with it at right moment.
Yes, rain is the king when it comes to crops like maize.