A beautiful new day to us all, the weekend is gradually coming to an end and I'm sure that my 9-5 workers are already preparing for the weekend break except if you are an individual that works during the holiday.
Talking about the weekend we are also already in the farm to carry out the irrigation excercise for today. Like I said before we often engage in this irrigation at least twice in a weeks for the vegetables and crops planted here.
Personally I haven't grown anything much in this dry season, only the hausa-fulani workers often engage in this type of dry season farming, but the lands they farms are part of the lands we also engage in for our farming season during the raining seasons. Vegetables, fluted pumpkins and the more simpler crops are what I normally farm here and that is thesame with the other women who engage in river bank farming here.
You can see how very dry the ground is around here. Sometimes I really actually wonder how the crops manage to survive and produce even anything. But we try as much as possible to ensure that the soil soaks an adequate amount of water that aid the crops growth before the ground gets so dried like the one you see in the picture here.
As soon as the corns starts tasseling here the seed production is accompanied by this growth just like you can see the corn 馃尳 in their husk here. The husk and the silk are produced right after fertilization and the corn cobs gradually begins to bear the seeds.
If you really want to grow corn during the dry seasons like this you have to ensure that you follow a disciplined principle of irrigating the farm at least twice in a week.
Avoid applying fertilizer directly on the crops as there is usually no sufficient water go dilute the fertilizer, it is better to apply the fertilizer and make the soil viable before planting anything. And if you must use the inorganic fertilizer you can increases the number of irrigation for that week go at least 3X to aid the dissolution and dilution of the fertilizer for the plant to absorb it well rather than vet burnt.
Applying fertilizer to any crop without proper irrigation can get it burnt and withered. And of course weeding and keeping the farm clean is another condition for succeful growth of crops in this season.
