Back again today. Apparently, the reason for not filling the sacs is their inavailability... It's now been concluded that I'll be getting some tomorrow from the market.
It's about ₦150/dozen.

So filling and planting will be done by the weekend

Was also there to check up on the big guys coming up...

There are some little ones just coming up too

Congratulations. Interesting thread.
Following keenly

Wonderful

When planting into the sack did you dig deep into the sack or you just make a small holes

Yesterday, in the evening, it was very windy with lightening so we expected rain.
In the end, we just had a 5-min shower and nothing else.

So today, I went around to finally mulch the ones I planted earlier.

Also made holes close to the bottom of the sac to avoid waterlogging

Nice one Oup, good job

This is awesome. Following closely. Keep it up

MrBONE2:
Nice one Oup, good job

Thank you

Neduzze5:
This is awesome. Following closely. Keep it up

Thank you sir

So I'd been running around looking for the guy that'd fill the remaining bags with soil for over a week now without success... Wherever I went, it was either they didn't see him or he had just left the place.

Today I sighted him from afar but I was on call and couldn't shout his name. Then he entered a house while I was still walking towards him.
When I got to the house, I told the guys outside who I was looking for, and they said I should go and look for him infront... As in I should walk further and ask of him.

I was like "I saw him enter this place right now". It was at this point they knew I had caught up to them with their lies.
So I asked him to come out and we started discussing.
Apparently, his friend that did half job and ran away with my money, told him that I didn't pay him.
That I'm a bad person and it was this guy's fault for introducing him to me.

Funny enough, it was this guy I'm talking to that I first met. He was the first to work with me before handing over the job to the runaway guy.

I guess he didn't want to give this guy any money and lied that I hadn't paid him for the work he did. Someone I paid in advance, did half work n travelled to his village...

To cut the long story short, the guy filled the sac today, I paid him freshly and he also helped me plant. We have 150 sacs planted now...

We'll see how things go.

BTW, it rained heavily last night and it was still showering early this morning.

Here are the pictures of the newly planted and mulched sacs.

orogodoganyin:
Here are the pictures of the newly planted and mulched sacs.

Good job OP, keep it up.

Good work done. As this shows that you don't necessarily need large hectares of land before farming. Do Agric it pays.

Kehfie:
Good job OP, keep it up.

thank you

schedule110108:
Good work done. As this shows that you don't necessarily need large hectares of land before farming. Do Agric it pays.

exactly... there are people with compounds that can take 1,000 sacs but they'd still go to a bush farm for a mere 500 stands of yam..

orogodoganyin:


exactly... there are people with compounds that can take 1,000 sacs but they'd still go to a bush farm for a mere 500 stands of yam..

Well done Boss, please how did you go about getting yam sets?

Tunjoel:

Well done Boss, please how did you go about getting yam sets?

I bought from a food canteen owner in the area

orogodoganyin:
Back again today. Apparently, the reason for not filling the sacs is their inavailability... It's now been concluded that I'll be getting some tomorrow from the market.
It's about ₦150/dozen.

So filling and planting will be done by the weekend

Pls update us ooooo

ChngedChnges:

Pls update us ooooo

I will... I've been quite busy
But there's update today

So... On Monday, right after watering the farm, I got an emergency call and had to leave home for two days... I came on Wednesday

I left some just starting to sprout before leaving and on return, they were pretty grown...
I think yam grows fast once it sprouts... The delay is the sprouting.

I also met some that were pretty grown and we're already needing staking so I concluded that I'd stake them on Friday

Some others were just sprouting and others, no visible reaction yet

Friday has come, albeit too fast. Been very busy and fatigued... The guy that helps me with the farm is also busy with some other work.

I initially thought of postponing it to Saturday... But rain came and I could see the way grown ones were swaying.

I decided to do a little staking, to continue the remaining preparation for Saturday.

Seems the snapshots of the stakes aren't too clear... Will do that tomorrow again

Thanks bro. This thread is really important to me. I love the innovation

ChngedChnges:
Thanks bro. This thread is really important to me. I love the innovation

you're welcome. I'll try to update as often as I can.