Hello Hive

A blessed new day to my dearest community members. I hope that we are having a good time and able to carry out our various activities.

Mid-March is fast approaching, and we are really expectant of the rain at this time. The earlier the rain comes, the earlier we resume farming activities. Tilling the ground and planting commence almost immediately, and this draws us closer to the growing phase of the crops and harvesting new crops eventually. All of these processes may be similar yearly, but climate and amount of rainfall have a direct impact on what we are able to grow or if our farming activities for the year will be successful.

While we are seriously anticipating the onset of rain, I have been trying to save different kinds of seeds for next session planting. Various preservation methods are used for different crops.

For staple crops, we often dry the seeds and preserve them against weeds. Once weevils enter seeds, you can no longer plant them as they won’t germinate. Preserving such kinds of seeds with inorganic chemicals won’t be harmful as the grains won’t be used for eating.

I was really surprised to see just how much my potato leaves have survived the dry seasons. Countless times I have forgotten to wet them, but they still survived the This will make it really easy for me to plant potatoes as soon as the rains commence. Planting/growing the potatoes from the small tubers often takes a little while before they bud, grow some leaves, and before we can start planting them.

Since this will be the first set of crops I will be planting, I decided to check on them and resume proper care for these.

The weather forecast has it that the rains will be very late this year, and we might be having only a single farming session; hence, we have to make proper preparations to do the right things at the right time if we are to expect any harvest.