My groundnut seedlings are barely a month old right now and they're already showing promising signs, no sign of slowing down, which is the ideal condition that I need them to be at this stage.

🌾 Planting Season Reflections

This year, I dedicated a large portion of my land to cultivating groundnuts due to the demand and the sudden rise in the price of a bag.

The farm clearing, ridge cultivation, and planting were all done manually, though the land is large, I employed more hands to make the work faster and easier at the expense of the cost, which I hope will be recovered from potential sales at harvest.

Seeds from last year came in handy, saving another cost getting seeds from the market, which at the end of the day might not be as good as the ones I had planted the previous year. I only change the seed after observing a new variety for a while to see how well the variety can produce.

Some seed varieties produce more than others, and others are quite big. Some produce more oil, and others don't produce much oil like the others do, so whatever you are planning to use the groundnut for should determine the variety you are planting.

🌍 The Soil and the Struggle

There's always a struggle to get a suitable farm land for agriculture no matter how adaptive that crop can be to different environment, it took me a while to find one that was in the right condition but I still prefer spending that much time surveying for farm lands than planting on just any land I see around that's empty.

🔮 Looking Ahead

The plan from now on is to keep things as it is and then I can weed the small grass that's coming up within the next two weeks before it begins to overpower the groundnut at that point weeding will be difficult because most of the weeds would have tangled up with the groundnut making it extremely difficult to separate the weeds from the groundnut causing more harm to the groundnut while weeding cause of the problem of identification.