The Farmer Hive
Where Divisi farmers show what is happening on their fields and ask each other for help — what to plant, what is eating the maize, what actually worked last season. Free to read, no signup.
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cabbage late for weeding lazy housewife beans germinating Newborn calf easte egger land prep
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Before you plant a single seed you saved, test 50 of them. Roll 50 seeds in a damp cloth, keep it damp, and count the sprouts after five to seven days. Double that number and you…
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The season is won or lost twice: once in the canopy, and again on the drying mat. Most of a cocoa farmer's year goes into the trees, and then a rushed ferment undoes it in a week…
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Planted spinach now rabbits are eating my spinach
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...and then we also have muller, also known as the "white carrot". very tasty high value herb/spice with high profit margin.
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Live & Dressed Chickens 491 Thorn Rd, Waterfalls, Harare Contact Chenai: 0785545971 or 0713220802 @chenai_chanakira
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funny thing l quarentined this lil bird coz it showed signed of sickness but was shocked to see it like this 😅
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A banana mat pays for years, across Uganda, Kagera, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern DRC and the plantain zones of Cameroon - which is why a stormy El Niño season is worth taking…
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The cheapest fertiliser you'll ever use is one you grow yourself. A legume cover crop planted between seasons - mucuna, lablab or cowpea depending on your rain - fixes its own…
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How the strawberry experiment worked for us on our plot in Dema, Seke. I can't believe it all started off with just 3 plants now we get more than 3kg per day
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If you're still saving your own soybean seed year after year, the cheapest yield jump available isn't more land — it's inoculant. A 100g sachet treats 10kg of seed, and Ghana…
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Grain that goes into the bag a little damp is where most storage losses begin. Ordinary bags can lose close to 40% of the maize to weevils in six months — a sealed airtight bag…
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If a chama, stokvel, susu or tontine already meets near you, joining before its next cycle starts is worth doing before you compare anything else. The mechanism: 15-25 people you…
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This El Nino won't give DR Congo a simple wet year or a dry one — expect rain that starts late, stops early, and comes in bursts, so plant on what you see the soil doing, not the…
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One hive gives you around 20-30 kg of honey a year - about a full debe - and it barely touches your land or water. The same bees are pollinating your beans, pumpkins and fruit…
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The single costliest mistake in onion is buying long-day seed — near the equator it just grows leaves and never forms a bulb at all. Look for a short-day type: Red Creole, Bombay…
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Perfect score in this Animal husbandry Weekday Quiz: 4 out of 4. Can you match it?
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Where you farm in Madagascar decides which of two problems you're actually planning for this season. In the deep south — Androy, Anosy, Atsimo-Andrefana — expect a hotter, later…
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Perfect score in this Crops Weekday Quiz: 4 out of 4. Can you match it?
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The trees you need are often already in your field, cut back to stumps that keep resprouting. Choose the strongest shoots, protect them, and prune the rest — and in a few seasons…
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I’m leading my friends in today’s Agronomy Daily Quiz with 2 out of 4. Can you beat it?
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If your leaves are wet past 8-9am for two or three days running, that's blight weather, and the spray needs to already be on before you see a spot. In a wet year it can take…
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I scored 4 out of 4 in today’s Agronomy Daily Quiz. Join the conversation on Divisi.
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I scored 4 out of 4 in today’s Farm records & finances Daily Quiz. Join the conversation on Divisi.
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