Hello Hive
A happy new morning to all of us. Even though yesterday was Monday, the first day of the working week, my schedules and work priorities differ from every other person out there, and this is because I am a farmer👩🌾.
While people visit their offices, my own office is right here on the farm, and as usual, work continues.
The potion of the rice farm we were meant to farm yesterday was a little bushy. Although herbicides have been added prior to this time, the grasses have been a bit stubborn and refused to die. We cannot plant the rice in it like that because the grasses will choke the rice to death if they are fortunate enough to germinate. Dad immediately left the farm to go get an herbicide to spray the farm a second time while we looked out for other work to do.
As usual, the routine remains to wet the seedlings and keep them alive for rainfall, and after that, we check on some other crops before going back home. There was not much to do since we couldn’t plant rice. While we got home, had some meals, and rested, I decided to work in the garden and tidy up some things here.
By evening, I noticed how the grasses within my vegetables had choked up the growing vegetables. I called upon my baby sister to assist me so that we could get the work done. Manual weeding like this takes a lot of time and energy. If I were to use a hoe, it would be faster, but for vegetables grown in beds like this, there is no way one can weed the grasses in between with a hoe.
We started with weeding the Lagos spinach. I noticed that the weeds have grown so much that they are choking the plants, and every attempt to pull up the weeds also pulls up some veggies. There was no way we could weed out the grass without pulling up some vegetables.
After weeding the spinach, I noticed how scanty they had been in the bed. It means that most of the veggies didn’t germinate, which gave room for grasses to fill up those spaces.
This is what it looked like before we started the weeding.
These are the spaces created after removing the bunch of grasses you will see next.
We did pull out this bunch of grasses you see next
I wouldn’t want this space to stay empty, so I will be getting more spinach seeds to plant in between the spaces.
We moved to weed grasses from the jute mallow as well, and you can see how well it has germinated; hence, there were no spaces for grasses to thrive in between. We could only pull out a few grasses.
The weeding of my vegetable garden was completed, and then I got some buckets of water to wet all the growing crops here and that concluded the farm work and gardening activities for yesterday.
Right this morning I will be out to get some vegetables seeds to fill up the scanty bed here and equally to plant more seeds in this other portion that has refused to germinate.