Have you seen how potatoes are planted? Cultivating and Planting potatoes...
Hello Hive
A beautiful new morning to everyone on the Blockchain and in the community especially, to all my passionate farmers and gardeners. I hope that we are all doing well, catching the right vibes and that our crops are yielding as expected.
The potatoes stems I was preserving at home have now being moved to the farm. Have you seen where potatoes are planted before?
They are usually planted using the stems mostly. During the dry seasons we often do all we can to preserve some of the stems by wetting them and keeping them alive.
The reason for this is because sometimes it is a bit challenging to grow the vegetative stems from the small tubers before they can then be propagated to produce food. Hence the easier method is to preserve the vegetative stems yearly after each planting season. It's a simple process of keeping some stems close to water source and then irrigating them occasionally to keep them alive.
Having done that the land gets cultivated and then the crops are transfered into the field. We pulled up these vegetative parts we have preserved at home here and then took them to the cultivated land. Using knives we cut them into smaller pieces and them dip them into the soil.
You can see the portion that was cultivated by some labourers before we started planting. Potatoes are the first crops I often like to plant, within 3-4months from now we can start harvesting the tubers for food. A little while from now we will also be planting some corn in between these potatoes.
There was not much of the potato stems to be planted hence when the raining seasons began, my neighbor planted a few of the stems in a bucket to enable them grow and produce more plantable part
Within that space of about 3weens coming to a month the stems grow longer which enabled us to have a much of the stems to fill up the field.
Once the leaves begin to grow out from here as well other people who desire to plant this on a matter date can take some of the parts dorm us to their fields. Potatoes do not die when you recut the stems rather they continue growing from there.
Problem here is, once again: This is no potato.
That is sweet potato - a totally different plant.
😂😂😂 I get you.
I just call them by the general name.
Though I know that this is sweet potatoes and I'm familiar with the Irish potatoes too.
Just those two are the ones I know.
Is this a Nigeria thing?
The rest of the world calls them potato. There is no Irish potato. If anything, it would be 'American potato', because that is where it's from.
Please remember: On Hive, you have an international audience (I hope).
Sweet potato and potato are 2 different things, entirely.
The only common thing is: they grow underground and are starchy.
Noted.
And thanks for the Headon
And maybe it's a Nigerian thing like you said. There is local names for everything and the one I call Irish potatoes might just be something else that you know.
I will tag you with a picture of it when next I stumble on it.