Bulb onion farming part 5

[kenthefarmer]

Drip irrigation was my choice since it has more advantages over the other mode of irrigation. Such kind of set up costed 150,000ksh since I did installation myself.

Some of the reasons I opted for drip is
1. Drip irrigation ensures water is delivered directly to the bulb onion roots, reducing wastage and promoting healthy growth.

2. With drip irrigation, you avoid wetting the bulb onion leaves, minimizing the risk of fungal diseases.

3. Save water and reduce costs especially when you have to hire people to do irrigation using farrow mode

4.Drip irrigation supports uniform growth, ensuring all bulb onions receive the same water supply.

It's was transplanting day after 45 days in the nursery. My choice is always pencil size seedlings because;

Pencil-sized bulb onion seedlings establish faster and recover quickly from transplanting shock, ensuring a healthy start in the field.

Transplanting is the most stressful day especially for me since I he'd to hire these ladies and some of them had not seen a bulb seedling before , I trained them and that's how we started.

It costed me 23-25 ladies per acre and each lady paid 500ksh a day.

Since I was using solar to pump water from the borehole, I experienced some delays since there was insufficient sun to power the pump.

Transplanting space should be 7-10 cm from one plant to the other. We also plant both sides of the drips to maximize on space.

So each Meter 100cm ÷7cm that is 14 seedlings per side multiplying by 4 drip lines per bed 14×2=28 seedling× 4=112seedlings the beds were 30m long 112×30= 3360 seedlings per bed .

 

[ching]

Your posts are really of help to me as a new farmer.I asked you what's depth should the seedlings be transplanted?

 

[ching]

I can also see your gumboots are in total mud ,what happened and you are using drip irrigation system?

 

[kenthefarmer]

Your posts are really of help to me as a new farmer.I asked you what's depth should the seedlings be transplanted?

A bulb onion seedling should be planted half am inch to an inch max.

 

[kenthefarmer]

I can also see your gumboots are in total mud ,what happened and you are using drip irrigation system?

its funny that 1st days of transplanting there must be an issue . my main pipe was leaking and we could not stop planting because of that.

 

[Simon owino juma]

View attachment 101987Drip irrigation was my choice since it has more advantages over the other mode of irrigation. Such kind of set up costed 150,000ksh since I did installation myself.

Some of the reasons I opted for drip is
1. Drip irrigation ensures water is delivered directly to the bulb onion roots, reducing wastage and promoting healthy growth.

2. With drip irrigation, you avoid wetting the bulb onion leaves, minimizing the risk of fungal diseases.

3. Save water and reduce costs especially when you have to hire people to do irrigation using farrow mode

4.Drip irrigation supports uniform growth, ensuring all bulb onions receive the same water supply.


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It's was transplanting day after 45 days in the nursery. My choice is always pencil size seedlings because;

Pencil-sized bulb onion seedlings establish faster and recover quickly from transplanting shock, ensuring a healthy start in the field.




View attachment 101989Transplanting is the most stressful day especially for me since I he'd to hire these ladies and some of them had not seen a bulb seedling before , I trained them and that's how we started.

It costed me 23-25 ladies per acre and each lady paid 500ksh a day.

Since I was using solar to pump water from the borehole, I experienced some delays since there was insufficient sun to power the pump.

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Transplanting space should be 7-10 cm from one plant to the other. We also plant both sides of the drips to maximize on space.

So each Meter 100cm ÷7cm that is 14 seedlings per side multiplying by 4 drip lines per bed 14×2=28 seedling× 4=112seedlings the beds were 30m long 112×30= 3360 seedlings per bed .View attachment 101979View attachment 101979View attachment 101980View attachment 101981View attachment 101982View attachment 101983View attachment 101984View attachment 101985View attachment 101986View attachment 101987View attachment 101988View attachment 101989View attachment 101990

Thorough work transplanting day