Nextgen Farms & Edible Garden

23/05/2026

This is how we start some of the plants you buy from is

For this batch, we planted sage and bok choy using a growing medium of cocopeat and compost.

The process is simple:
🪴fill the seedling trays
🪴make your hole - did you see the hack in the video? Farmers should definitely know this.
🪴drop in the seeds
🪴cover lightly
🪴 water deeply and make sure the the growing medium never dries out if not….. 🤐
🪴and let nature do her thing while we care for it.

🌿 Sage is a bit of a slow grower and honestly not the most beginner-friendly plant
🥬 Bok choy, on the other hand, is much faster and definitely more beginner-friendly

So if you’re just starting out, bok choy will probably encourage you more quickly.

Sage is for gardeners with a little more experience

Either way, this is how the journey starts — small seeds, the right medium, and a little consistency.

Which one would you rather grow — sage or bok choy?

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

22/05/2026

Have you noticed that good soil is now either scarce or expensive? 😅

Quite a number of people have asked us what type of soil we use, and the truth is… we mix our own.

Because the more you garden, the more soil you use, and the more creative you have to get about building a soil mix that will actually help your plants grow well without breaking the bank.

These days in Lagos, clay soil is one of the easiest to find and they will be calling it top soil…. as how?👀

So what we usually do is mix:

🪴equal parts clay soil and sandy soil
🪴 then add about half compost
🪴and about a quarter to half manure (chicken, rabbit, cow or any other good well decomposed manure)

After that, we adjust it until we get the level of porosity we want. At the end of the day, you want a soil that can hold some moisture, but still drain well and allow the roots to breathe.

Loamy soil used to be easier to access, but it’s not as available as it used to be.
So instead of waiting for perfect soil, we make what we need 😌

Would you rather mix your own soil or just buy ready-made soil?

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

21/05/2026

I started my farming journey growing tomatoes in greenhouses, and we grew some really beautiful tomatoes 🍅

And the truth is, even as a home gardener, you can also grow beautiful tomatoes. But sometimes… things just don’t go as planned 😅

This was one of those times where our tomatoes decided to behave in a way we could not even fully understand. Honestly, this was a first for us seeing them look this unhappy.

Tomatoes are heavy feeders and they require quite a bit of attention to do well. Also the weather also affects how well it does.

But we didn’t give up.
We kept watering.
We kept feeding them.
We kept trying to figure out what was going on.
And even though they did not look their best, they still gave us a half decent harvest. So all our efforts weren’t wasted.

And I think that’s one of the lessons in gardening:
sometimes it won’t be perfect, but it can still be worth it.

So if your tomatoes are not giving you that picture-perfect look, don’t be too discouraged.
Keep observing.
Keep learning.
Keep trying.

Because things can still turn around… and even when they don’t fully, you will learn a lesson or two

Please share your experience growing tomatoes.

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

20/05/2026

So yesterday I showed you how to multiply tomato plants using water, and today I’m showing you how to multiply tomato plants using soil . Using soil is my preferred method

And this is why I prefer the soil method:

🪴less transplant shock
🪴less handling
🪴the roots are already growing in the medium they will stay in

So for me, it just makes life easier 😌

Which method do you prefer for multiplying tomato plants — water or soil?

Happy Gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

17/05/2026

Nigeria has launched agricultural policy after agricultural policy for decades… yet food prices keep rising, and hunger remains a part of everyday life for many Nigerians.

From the 1988 Agricultural Policy…
to the Agricultural Transformation Agenda… to the Green Alternative…
to today’s innovation-driven NATIP policy…

The real question is 👇🏾

Why is Africa’s largest agricultural economy still battling food insecurity?

Is the problem:
• bad policy?
• poor implementation?
• insecurity?
• climate change?
• weak storage systems?
• logistics?
• corruption?
• or are we simply not treating agriculture like national security?

Because the truth is:
Food security is national security.

A country that cannot feed itself becomes vulnerable economically, politically, and socially.

And while farmers struggle:
• input costs are rising
• farmland is becoming unsafe
• post-harvest losses remain massive
• and millions of Nigerians are spending more of their income just to eat.

The confusing part?
Nigeria actually has the land, climate diversity, population, and human capacity to become an agricultural powerhouse.

So what are we missing? 👀

Did you know about all these policies?

FoodCrisis

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

15/05/2026

So we planted pineapples here and they did not really do well… but before planting we buried some kitchen waste in the soil, next thing cherry tomatoes just showed up and started thriving.

No serious care.
No staking.
No special attention.
No follow-up like that.

And yet they just kept growing well and giving us lots of fruit.

Infact let me shock you…. I almost removed it because I thought it would affect the pineapples but Samson insisted we leave it and thank God I listened to the voice of reason 😁

So now I’m genuinely curious… what is the magic behind this? 👀

Why is it that sometimes a plant will find one random spot and just decide that this is where it will prosper?

Is it the soil?
The nutrients from the kitchen waste?
The microclimate?
Or just one of those gardening mysteries we may never fully understand? 😂

If you know what the secret is, please come and tell us in the comments.

Abi should we say it’s the Lord’s doing and it’s marvellous in our eyes? 😁🙏🏿

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

14/05/2026

So this pineapple patch gave us everything except pineapple 😅🍍

It gave us:
🍅 some of the best cherry tomatoes
🍈 really good pawpaw
🐇 and plenty of rabbit food

But pineapple flower? Not one.
Pineapple fruit? Nothing 😭

Imagine planting one thing, and somehow the space decides to favour every other plant except the one you actually had in mind.

What’s even more confusing is that we’ve planted pineapples many times before — even in spaces that were not ideal — and they still did well.
Maybe the fruit was not huge, but they still showed up.

So this one has us genuinely wondering… what exactly went wrong here?

If you know, please help us in the comments 😌
Because at this point, the patch was productive… just not in the way we planned.

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

13/05/2026

I saw these ornamental dwarf pineapples in a supermarket, and of course my first thought was not just “how cute” but can I multiply this thing?

So I picked up two to see whether they would give me suckers/pups that we could replant… and one did….happy days! You can plant the crown but it’s always better to plant a sucker.

We replanted the suckers, waited, and 18 months later this is the result.

Now one is ripe, one is still unripe, and I’m looking at them thinking…

Considering how small they are would it be better suited for a flower arrangement as opposed to eating it?

I feel like the unripe one will look nice in an arrangement but the ripe one not so much. But we can all agree that they are pretty cute!

One thing I enjoy about gardening is that you can buy one plant, propagate it, replant it, and before you know it, you have a bunch more. Plants are one of the few things that just keeps giving.

So tell me:
are you team eat it or team use it for flower arrangement?

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

10/05/2026

09/05/2026

Did you see the caterpillars that tried to escape? 😒 You have to deal with them.

We found them on our young cucumber plants, and while there are different ways to handle this kind of problem — like spraying neem oil — in this case, we decided to just pick them off by hand and crush them.

Why?
Because we didn’t have that many plants, and the plants were still quite young, so it made sense to act fast and remove the problem immediately.

Remember to regularly inspect your plants 👀

Because if you catch a pest or disease early, it is much easier to manage.
But if you leave it too long, before you know it, they have taken over your garden.

So please:
🪴check under your leaves
🪴inspect tender new growth
🪴don’t ignore bite marks or droppings
🪴and act quickly

Are you team pick it off by hand or team let’s spray?

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚

08/05/2026

So in my previous reel, somebody said that if you plant a sweet potato tuber, it will grow vines but won’t give you new tubers. I have to be honest with you, that was news to be and to be honest we plant mostly from vines.

Now me, I found that interesting and thought to ask my fellow comrades if this is the case 😁

So I want to ask:
Has this happened to you before?
Have you planted sweet potato tubers and only got vines?
Or did you still get new tubers?

Because if it is true, then no wahala — you simply cut off the vine, replant it, and problem solved.

So please share your experience in the comments.

Happy gardening 👩🏾‍🌾💚