Hello Hive
A beautiful morning to all hive community, I hope that we all had a sound night rest. I woke up a little tired from yesterday farm work and still finding it a little difficult to drag myself out of bed. Today we will be equally be continuing with our groundnut harvest and we have been able to harvest a significant amount of it.
As the year draws closer to an end, alot of people are equally busy with their own harvest most especially with crops like groundnut that can get spoilt when not harvested from the farm on time.
Most farm work is often done in a rush, everything has timing and any prolong deviation from the time for which we are meant to do certain farm work can cause some us some losses. After the days work yesterday we decided to pluck a little of scotch bonnet from the farm for soup. My farm neighbors friend here seems to have made a lot of money growing and selling scotch bonnet this year.
I love this very specie of pepper from all the categories of pepper. I haven't grown any pepper of my own this year, we hardly miss growing pepper when my mum was still alive, although she isn't used to growing this exact specie.
A couple of times after he demise I have tried to grow some scotch bonnet on my own, each time I try to show some interest in growing different types of crops. I have to acquire knowledge and experience in growing different crops in order to be familiar with the best time for planting such crops, how best to care for them and how to maximize our input for optimum harvest. A neighbor friend often laugh about my interest in growing crops saying that someday I would grow gold on trees.
It is my greatest desire to explore growing different crops and it's really possible that I compare the demand and market value for each crops if they have the potential to fetch us good amount of money, paradventure we decide to go into commercial farming like we did earlier, it becomes easy to know which crops will generate more income.
Having grown different specie of vegetables and pepper I understand the basic requirements for growing most of these crops. This scotch bonnet had thrived very well on a sandy-loamy soil and has been continuously producing pepper for about a month now. I was able to pluck off a little that I would use for soup while trying to make some plans to save some of these seeds for next year planting.
Each time I come across some fertile plants like this, I love to engage in saving some of the seeds of such high yielding specie so that they can give us some quality products to harvest in a subsequent farming session.