Sweet potato grown from root slices

Finally succeeded in growing sprouts from the sweet potato cuttings.
Failed in few attempts.

Method we followed to grow sweet potato sprouts:

* Purchased sweet potato from the local farmer market nearby.
* Made sweet potato into few pieces with nodes using knife.
* Folded the sweet potato peices with wet gunny bag.
* Left it until we saw little green sprout on the nodes.
* After that planted in the soil. (Loosen the soil before planting)
* The below image showing 20 days sprout after transplanting.
* This was the big peice of sweet potato, thus many nodes with sprouts.

Methods which have failed

* Purchased sweet potato in market and made into peices by hand. After that
directly covered root with top soil. watered the roots. But didnt grown. They
have wilted and decomposed. Dont know might be due to rain or tight soil or due
to slugs.

Edit: didn't grown well due to eucalyptus tree shade in summer.

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Farm update February 2020

Farm update

The prices of the vegetables including bottle gourd decreased. Few resources say it's due to coronavirus. Thus, no exports or imports.

Bottle gourd price decreased to 60 RS per bag. The arrival of bottle gourd to Retail vegetable market also increased. Would not able to sell a bag to 60 RS in local markets.

Seed Saving

This February saved Brinjal and Okra seeds.

Extracting Brinjal (green) seeds will take long time. Need patience. The seeds will be sticky. Often add some water to your hands while extracting. After extracting the seeds, dry them under the shade. After drying, take a seed and try to break. If it is brittle, you are ready to save it in a bottle. If it does not breaks easily, you still need to dry under the shade. This variety is a drought tolerant. Planted 2 feet sapling on September 2018, still yielding but low in quantity. Found this sapling nearby the farm. At beginning, it took more time for yielding.

Saving the Okra (white purple) seeds is easy. See the okra plants, if any okra is dried, yo can pluck it and save in bottle. It can also be grown under shade. We grown this variety under bottle gourd shade. This variety is drought tolerant. It can grow to the maximum height of 4 to 5.5 feet.

Both the seeds are available for seed swap. Both are native varieties. So, only native varieties for swap. Kindly message us through the FB messenger at the top right corner of the website, if you are in desktop mode or visit contact us page to message us.

#seedswap #abcdfarming #okra #brinjal

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Experience on supplying farm grown vegetables to local farmer market.

From the past 1 month, we have been supplying Bottle gourd. Don't know where to start from...! Would like to share our experience in supplying vegetables to local farmer market.

We planted bottle gourd seeds on the end of October 2019. It started yeilding from January 2020. Here, we used organic (poultry manure) as well as chemical fertilizers (N:P:K). Thus, it is semi organic.

The bottle gourd is harvested for every two days once. That is only one day intervel between the harvests. The price of bottle gourd were down. The farm gate price of 20 to 24 bottle gourd in a bag was RS. 100 to RS. 130.

If we sell directly in the Local vegetable markets, we have a choice to atleast raise the price to 150 to 170 RS per bag(depends on the quality of the bottle gourd). But here too, there are few vendors who asks for negotiation.

This are the beginning days, we supply in low quantity from 2 bags to 4 bags on each harvest. Day by day, the vendor contacts are increasing.

Presently, we are supplying to Bagalur Retail vegetable market on (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday). We will be near Bagalur Govt. Hospital (place where buyers and sellers meet)  @5:30 am with vegetable bags to sell.

On Saturday,  chikka Thirupathi @5:30 am- on every Saturday "santhe" takes place. popular known place to  buy/sell chickens, sheep, goat, etc.. and also vegetables. We were here on only one day. Saw many Livestock varieties.

On Sunday, K N Doddy @5:30 am - on every Sunday "santhe" takes place. Didn't went to this santhe. But trying to visit... :)

Do's when selling:

• Be polite
• Good Packing of the vegetable
• Quality and Quantity of vegetables should be good.

Don't when selling

• Say the exact price, don't ask for high price.
• Don't speak too much regarding the price.
• don't pack vegetables which are rotten.

If any suggestions or would like to ask anything message us through Facebook window which you will find on the right top of the window.

#abcdfarming #localvegetablemarket #bottlegourd #supplyingvegetables

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