Past few weeks i was worried about one thing in the farm, the older leaves started drying off .. initially i thought it was leaf scorching or may be it was some sort of disease i didn't know, but apart from dying leaves, all the the younger leaves which were coming up were healthy and fine and showed absolutely no issues. That's when i learnt that its normal senility of leaves and that its normal for a plant to shed the old leaves by drying up. But what is important is that you should get rid of that old and dead leaves so as to avoid fungal growth and bacterial infection. Make sure to pull off all the dead and rotten leaves and along with that pull off the leaves that are half dried and are pluckable. This will give the plant and the soil more breathing space. And more over cleaning all these leaves will make the farm look healthy and green.
Boy !! that was one tideous job to attend to each and every plants and check for the drying up leaves pull them out and clean up the plant. It took loads of extra workers and couple of days to finish the 1st round of cleaning process ... and i got almost a tractor load of dump i guess.. i have made arrangements to make use of this farm waste and convert it into compost and reuse in the farm. Vermicomposting is totally new thing to me and i will have to experiment and learn the trick of doing it
Boy !! that was one tideous job to attend to each and every plants and check for the drying up leaves pull them out and clean up the plant. It took loads of extra workers and couple of days to finish the 1st round of cleaning process ... and i got almost a tractor load of dump i guess.. i have made arrangements to make use of this farm waste and convert it into compost and reuse in the farm. Vermicomposting is totally new thing to me and i will have to experiment and learn the trick of doing it
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| A dump of the dead and aged leaves of Gerbera Farm while clean up session. |
