GROWING VEGETABLES IN MAIZE MEAL BAGS (sacks)
STEPS
👉🏾 Moisten the growing medium to allow good distribution of water during irrigation.
👉🏾 In an 50kg maize meal bag you can plant on average of 35 plants.
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STEPS
👉🏾 Moisten the growing medium to allow good distribution of water during irrigation.
👉🏾 In an 50kg maize meal bag you can plant on average of 35 plants.
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👉🏾 Fill a maize-meal bag with the moistened growing medium such as sawdust or compost.
👉🏾 Use a sharp blade to cut planting holes in the bag at a 20cm x 10cm distance to transplant leafy vegetables such as kale, rape, mustard spinach, Swiss chard, spinach, beetroot and lettuce.
👉🏾 Use a sharp blade to cut planting holes in the bag at a 20cm x 10cm distance to transplant leafy vegetables such as kale, rape, mustard spinach, Swiss chard, spinach, beetroot and lettuce.
👉🏾 Push the seedling root into the planting hole in the maize-meal bag.
👉🏾 Make sure that the bag is upright to allow the uniform distribution of water.
👉🏾 Make sure that the bag is upright to allow the uniform distribution of water.
👉🏾 Make sure that the growing medium doesn’t dry out. Plants should be watered from the top of the bag. The water will drain downwards to benefit the lower plants.
👉🏾 Complete nutrient solution can be applied on a weekly basis to supply plants with nutrition.
👉🏾 Complete nutrient solution can be applied on a weekly basis to supply plants with nutrition.
Dissolve 1g of soluble fertiliser per litre of water
👉🏾 Plants can be watered every second day (e.g. in an 50kg bag 37l of water can be applied per week).
👉🏾 Plants should be exposed to sunlight for the process of photosynthesis to take place.
👉🏾 Plants can be watered every second day (e.g. in an 50kg bag 37l of water can be applied per week).
👉🏾 Plants should be exposed to sunlight for the process of photosynthesis to take place.
ADVANTAGES
👉🏾 Water is conserved as very little drains out of the bag.
👉🏾 It suppresses weeds; no weed control is needed.
👉🏾 Plant leaves are free from soil particles since leaves face upwards.
👉🏾 There is high yield per unit area, compared to growing on a flat area.
👉🏾 Water is conserved as very little drains out of the bag.
👉🏾 It suppresses weeds; no weed control is needed.
👉🏾 Plant leaves are free from soil particles since leaves face upwards.
👉🏾 There is high yield per unit area, compared to growing on a flat area.
👉🏾 Less area is required to produce food (56 plants/m2).
DISADVANTAGES
👉🏾 Poor drainage medium can have a negative effect on moisture distribution and root aeration.
👉🏾 Bags need to be supported and kept upright for uniform distribution of water.
DISADVANTAGES
👉🏾 Poor drainage medium can have a negative effect on moisture distribution and root aeration.
👉🏾 Bags need to be supported and kept upright for uniform distribution of water.
👉🏾 Maize-meal bags cannot be reused. With time, it may be torn and will disintegrate, depending on how strong the bag
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