Harvesting and Storing Pumpkins, Sweet Potato (Kumara) & Borlotti Beans

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05:46:00

Year of Production: 

2023

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Organic Edible Garden
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Being crops with high value of nutrients, the shelf lives of pumpkins, sweet potatoes and borloti beans can be increased by use of good technology to store. Before stroring of pumpkins, they should have a good stron stem which prevents fruit from rotting and a farmer should also put baking soda into te water and stir to alkalise the pumpkins in solution when inserted to prevent them from equally rotting as well.

Crop storage

First, a farmer should deep pumpkins in the solution making sure also the stem is covered with solution and also bake the stems to allow longtime  storage. Similarly, store pumpkins in a place with wood shavings or straw which dont allow it to touch the ground and also touching each other. These can be kept for 8-9 months before they spoil.
Equally to harvest potatoes, a farmer should firstr remove the growing tops, dig out the potatoes without damaging them collect and take them for storage in the house.
For barloti beans they have to be dried before storage and finally a farmer should place the beans in plastic bag for 5 days to eliminate weevils.
Sequence from Sequence to Description
00:0000:42Pumpkins should have a good strong stem before storage.
00:4301:02Put baking soda into water and stir to alkalise pumpkins.
01:0301:33Deep pumpkins in the solution making sure strems are covered.
01:3402:36Bake pumpkin stems and store pumpkins in place with wood shavings.
02:3703:39To harvst potatoes, first remove growing tips.
03:4003:39Dig out poatatoes without damaging them for storage.
03:4004:29Collect potatoes and take them for storage in the house.
04:3005:14For barloti beans, dry them before storage and place them in plastic bag.
05:1505:46Summary

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