Hello Hive

A beautiful morning to everyone onchain, I hope that we had a restful night. I am up a bit more earlier than usually today and I can hardly say if I slept for some long hours.

My sister needs a shirt dress for some outing this weekend and I have to stay up to sew one for her. It is either I make such sacrifice or she will be forced to purchase some from the market which will really be expensive at this time of the year.

We are all helping one another and watching each other grow and I can't afford to let her spend some unnecessary money to buy clothes when I can sew one. You will see the details of the making processes and she shirt dress I made for her later.

For this morning we are already headed for farm. My dad loves taking us to farm as early as 6am some days especially if it is a day for weeding. We want to rush at some rice farm and clear the weeds manually before the rains resumes.
Swamp water doesn't often. For our rice seedlings that are doing well and less affected by the drought we want to take proper care of them before the heavy downpours of September show up.

A quick check on our cassava farm tell me how much our cassava is doing well. The leaves have remained dark green and not affected by the severe dryness other farm products are currently experiencing.

This is to say that cassava is the only crop that you can plant with minimal worries about how much rains fall per year or not. The tuber crops is a good drought resistant crop that often survives long months of dryness.

Since most cassava plants takes a year to grow we often plant cassava with the onset of rain within the Months of March to April depending on when the rains starts. At about this time the cassava are often well establish and can survive any condition till next year.

Aside this present dryness which we are hoping that the rains will resume soon for the crops to continue growing, soon as that happens, the cassava will continue to grow until December in which further progress and development will be progresses through out the dry seasons until the rains resume again and we can then begin harvest. By that time tubers of cassava will have been well matures and established, ready for harvest.

It is worthy of note to be careful and mindful of the types of cassava specie we grow.
On a certain year like that, my mum harvested and boiled cassava for us to eat. Everything seemed fine until we ate the tuber and stated having diarrhoea and stomach upset. It was then my tried teaching us how to recognize the good cassava specie different from the poor one.
Some specie of cassava does not contain excessive starch and are not poisonous for heath. Those ones can be harvested, boiled and consumed fresh

But for the other specie, it is often advisable that we allow it to go through a preparation process whereby the excess starch is fermented out and the cassava is processed into certain form before such cassava meals can be eating
Even till now and by physical examination of the plant leaves and all, I find it difficult to recognize the better cassava specie, daddy is always here to assist with differentiating them. I have no idea if any one here is familiar with the types of cassava tubers we have.