Hello Hive
Happy Sallah celebration to all my Muslim friends. It's a wonderful day today, and we are happy to celebrate with you all. Since yesterday I have been perceiving the aroma of delicacies from different kitchens, and I hope that some good neighbors will share some meat with me today 😂.
Some friends complained bitterly about how expensive chicken got this season, and not just that—pepper and tomato all got expensive too. I couldn't purchase the expensive Scotch bonnet being offered to me at the market yesterday. The price is so outrageous that I decided to hold off on cooking any stew this weekend. This made me realize how much of a drawback it has been for me to have omitted planting peppers this year. I am often known for planting peppers and veggies. I even planted some spring onions last year and recorded some massive progress with it, harvesting and eating fresh veggies right from my compound.
From today's gardening duties, I'm so happy to see that my planted jute mallow has been growing progressively, and, like I predicted, one can grow and harvest these within just 6 weeks. These are barely 24 days old, and they have grown to a reasonable height.
In 14 days' time they will be ready for harvest. While the jute mallow is progressing in growth, the veggies have suffered a terrible fate. It is very difficult, if not almost impossible, to grow veggies here. Even after making an effort to plant seeds, we have some animals and insects ready to feast on growing veggies at all times.
Starting with the hens that kept scattering the seeds I planted to snails feeding on the germinating veggie seedlings. Eventually I had chickens feed on all the growing veggies.
After having some good success with germinating the seeds, I lost a good portion of the veggies that would have covered the empty spaces here. These were all that were able to survive after we kept monitoring the veggies to keep away those animals.
The morning routine for me is always to water the veggies and the potatoes I had just planted yesterday whenever there is no rain.
The potatoes need constant wetting whenever they are recently transplanted, and it takes only about 14 days for them to get established in their new environment.