Jani Farm

Aloe Vera Aloe Vera as Fertilizer Aloe Vera has essential nutrients that improve soil and help plants grow. Aloe Vera leaves are rich in amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.  Aloe Vera fertilizer adds organic matter to your soil, which chemical fertilizers do not do. It also improves the ability of soil to hold on to water.  Aloe Vera leaves have NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium), which boost plants, making them stronger. Stronger plants are better able to resist pests and diseases.  Aloe Vera leaves have growth hormones and enzymes that help plants absorb the nutrients that they need to grow strong.  How to Whip up Aloe Vera Fertilizer Harvest a few larger Aloe Vera leaves. Cut out the thorns and chop the leaves in to smaller pieces. Blend the pieces of aloe vera leaf for a smooth texture.  Mix ten parts of water for every one part of Aloe Vera leaf gel. Your Aloe Vera fertilizer is ready.  How to Apply Aloe Vera Fertilizer  Spray it onto the ...

Seven Eggs that were stuck inside an Egg Bound Hen 😢  This is one of the hardest experiences I've had with chickens. I had purchased a beautiful kienyeji hen that I thought would be perfect for brooding new chicks.  She was also a very good layer. But a few months after she arrived, she stopped laying and became lethargic. She was not eating.  I realized that her belly was swollen and she had not laid an egg for several days. With a little research, I realized that she was egg bound .  I could not help her pass the eggs, so I made the decision to process the hen. She had seven eggs stuck inside her. Some were rotten because they had been in there for days on end. 

Mystery Beans with Red Flowers  Sometime last year, I bought some beans I had never seen before. They were quite large. I also loved the taste.  Because I had never seen them before, I decided to plant some of them.  Well, the beans survived the rainy season and they are now flowering with bright red flowers. I have never seen beans with red flowers before. After googling around for a bit, I learned that they are called scarlet runner beans.  I have only seen white, pink, and purple flowers on beans. So the red flowers were a beautiful surprise. I absolutely love them and I look forward to the podding and harvesting stages.  There is another batch of mystery bean that I also want to plant. These are also large, but they are plain brown in color. I'm probably going to plant them after harvesting something else. Because right now I have three bean fields, a maize field, an onion field, a garlic field, and a tomato field.  Last year, I had a problem with ...

An onion at bulbing stage This is not my first time farming onions. I once planted a crop of Jambar f1 onions. The results were good. I got large red onion bulbs that I sold to a muhindi at 50 bob per kg. They were very, very large. It was a quarter of an acre.  Jambar is supposed to mature in 90 days, but because I am in a cooler climate, the onion took much longer to bulb. I am not complaining because the harvest was good.  That was several years ago, and this time I am doing red creole onion. It is an open pollinated variety that I expect will produce more average-sized, red bulbs. There is an older crop that is already bulbing and I have top dressed it with CAN. So far I haven't applied any synthetic fertilizer because I had applied plenty of goat manure.  But now that it is raining, I can apply some CAN to speed up last minute growth.  I am hoping to convert to fully using organic fertilizers within the next two or three years. If I can compost the st...

Garlic bulbing I've started experimenting with growing garlic.  My process is really simple.  1. Buy a few garlic bulbs from the store 2. Separate the individual cloves 3. Put the cloves in water to make them wet 4. Throw the garlic cloves into a juala or a carrier bag 5. Throw the bag of wet garlic cloves into the fridge for 40 days. 6. Plant each clove into soil mixed with manure. By this time, all the cloves will have rooted. 7. Wait.  Garlic Plant The Results So far the cloves I panted have grown into a round bulb. It looks like an onion, lol. I have not seen cloves yet.  But I am giving them more time. If they don't grow into cloves by the end of the season, I might give the next batch of garlic cloves a longer stay in the fridge. I figure I have nothing to lose. I can always make garlic paste. Other than that, I don't yet have a success story with this. I will post an update as soon as I succeed at growing a proper garlic bulb with cloves.  ...