Hello Hive

It's a beautiful day here and the weather is a bit friendly this morning. We had a brief shower yesterday and that went a really long way to cool the temperature. The sun has been scourging for the past few days and any shower of rain at this time is a huge blessing.
The is a sign for the upcoming raining season which we are highly expectant of to resume the farming season for this year, although we have been busy with all of these gardening Activities, the bulk of the food we eat are often grains and not only vegetables.

By this time of the year our grains are almost exhausted and we need to start planting on time to replace them. We still have some quantity of corn left but the rice is at the bottom already. I have harvested about 7bags of 50kg rice during the last farming season but there are just too many mouths to feed and being the most preferred among all the foods it was exhausted almost immediately. And like it is typical of my family we seldom purchase foods from the market.

Between jute mallow vegetables here and okro plants in the next picture we have two choices. These are different local vegetables used for soup.

The okro are still in their tender age and unlike the jute mallow they have to grow and produce their fruits first which is then used for soup. For the just mallow they are harvested like this or like some other vegetables and prepared directly as foods. Out of these two choice of soup Vegetables some prefer one to the other.

During the time that I have lived in the northern parts of the country I didn't have an idea of what jute mallow is as this particular vegetables is not common in the North or grown at all in that part of this country. This is to say that there are many species of these vegetables and until you go round the country you wouldn't know of the existence of other healthy vegetable around.

Health importance of Jute mallow.

Having come here I learnt how to eat the jute mallow but I still prefer the okro to this one, although consistently I'm begining to learn that jute mallow is now more beneficial to our health than okro.
A lot of other healthy vegetable are grown here, some of which I am not familiar with. Sometimes I often explore in order to learn how to eat new specie of plants to harness the nutrients and resources in them.
Locally jute mallow is used to aid labour and child birth in our local communities here. Pregnant women are often advised to eat as much of the leaves especially in their third semester.