17/07/2026
FARM UPDATE (16th July) ๐จโ๐พโ๏ธ
Sowed nachani (finger millet) seeds today for nursery preparation on our farm. Just like rice, we have found that nursery prepaparation (preparing saplings in a small area and then transplanting into the field) works out well for nachaani too, especially for our organic farm. As a grass, it is very difficult to remove weeds from plots of nachani as many wild grasses looks similar to it. By letting the nachani saplings grow densely in a small patch till they reach a certain size, and then transplanting into the field, we can directly clear the field of wild grasses again right before transplanting nachani saplings into it. Any new wild grasses that grow after transplanting will be a different size than the already bigger nachani and thus easily distinguishable.
Big thank you to Rohan and Stuti from Grow Lab | Building Edible Gardens โฉfor dropping by to help us sow the nachani seeds today! And for suggesting we mix the soaked seeds with vericmompost to make sowing them easy, as plain soaked seeds tend to clump together and stick to our hands ๐ (the nachani was soaked overnight to hasten the germination)
Stay tuned for more monsoon farm updates! ๐ง๏ธ