MISTAKES FARMERS MAKE by Steve part 2
4.Planting too much is not right.
Some farmers in a bid to manage space cluster crop in the farm whereas there should be enough space for plants to breath and receive sunlight.Planting too much seeds/seedlings is a mistakes in vegetable farming. Avoid it at all cost.
5. Inadequate Spacing
Give your plants enough space to breath while you also use the most of the space you have available.
6. Non maintenance Culture
Weeds and alien plants compete with crops for space, water and soil nutrients. Failure to tackle such issues in the early days will lead the weeds overgrowing and eventually covering your crops.
It’s understandable that most new vegetable farmers don t know the actual time to weed the farm.
Another bad mistake in vegetable farming is poor pest or insect management.
7. Ignoring challenges
Lets assume the leaves are becoming yellowish, you should be worried because it may be as a result of many things, such as; lack of a particular nutrient or too much of water intake.
8. Not staking as a common mistake in vegetables farming
Some vegetable plants such as cucumber, pepper, tomatoes require staking for proper fruiting. Ugu may not produce plenty pod if they are not stake.
9. Not Harvesting on time is a common mistake in Vegetables farming
Vegetable crops should be harvested on time, vegetables are harvested at different times depending on the crop. Harvesting cucumber starts from week 6, water melon 75 days if delayed, they fruits will rot.
Conclusion
We are not perfect and as a result we make mistakes but what sets us apart from other farmers is that we learn from those mistakes.
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