Hello Homestead lovers. I believe that the week should be going well with you and your family. It has been a long I drop some of my agricultural homesteads here but today, I decided to share with you some experiences I gathered from my maize farm. Before I proceed with the experience explanations, I will like you to understand that maize is one of the common African foods that help the body's system generate energy through its carbohydrate, vitamins, and many more to the body.
I and my family loves eating corn because most times we may notice that we do not have food in the house and decide to just go to the backyard where the corn is planted to have some. At the end of everything, the corns will be prepared and everybody within the house will just enjoy it the way it is. One of the things about eating corn is that it doesn’t require many ingredients to be prepared but to be honest with you, I and my family also love cooking beans with corn to give the protein that the beans will generate to the body a balanced diet with the carbohydrate and vitamin that the corn will generate.
Well, greetings for introducing maize challenge 2022. I do understand that I’m partaking in this challenge very late but I believe that I just have to participate and show the world my experiences with the maize I planted. It’s not yet over for the maize season because maize always does well in the rainy season and for the period that my maize will be staying, it will still be raining because even in Benue state where I am based you can just keep planting.
This evening after I closed my shoemaking office and on my way going to my house, a close friend called me on phone and told me that I should try and check my maize farm because he was suspecting whether domestic animals like goats and foul are disturbing my maize plant. I didn’t wait for him to end the call; I dropped my working bag in the house and made a little change of dress. When I visited my maize farm this evening, it was indeed that my maize is not just doing fine because the goat is just eating them up and not allowing them to develop nutrients that will help them grow.
To be honest with you, I was not just fine seeing my maize not just doing well because I and my family have even started counting in days for the maize to just germinate seed and mature so that we can harvest but seeing the look, I was disappointed but I think been disappointed here will not yield any benefit rather than to proffer solutions that will make goat and other domestic animals stop disturbing my maize farm.
I came to the conclusion that my grandmother used to grind goat dumps and put them inside a container after she will have to add some water to it and then spray it on the maize farm to enable goats to stop disturbing her maize farm. I decided to put into practice the methods but I have to make my own a little thicker and not too watery to help the goat dump that I will be applying on my maize farm not to be washed away by rain.
I will not conclude this post without acknowledging for the adequate support he has been showing from day one of the maize challenges, and I ask for more effort dear.