It's with great pleasure that am welcoming everyone to my blog and I hope you're all doing well and having a great day. It is another wonderful day to share with you all regarding the great harvest I had recently in my garden.
I want to believe that this is the great harvest I have ever had in a long time but it won't be the greatest since there are still more harvest to come. I am always overwhelmed being a gardener and a poultry farm business man because of the joy that comes with it. Though it is not easy being both a gardener and a poultry farm business man because it's can be too stressful but financial wise is a great way to overcome some financial hurdles and save me from unnecessary spending.
You can't the benefits of planting your own food until during the harvest which you have it bountiful and you later had that the cost of your harvest is worth thousands of Naira in the market.
One of the most cash crop you will ever see in my area here is cassava and no part of this cassava is a waste due to how important it is and it is also a great blessing to human due to different foods like flour, garri, fufu, Amala, starch and so on derived from this amazing crop. Even the peel of cassava is still consumed by goats, pigs and so on.
My wife taking part in the harvest
The importance of cassava is the reason why I wrote this article because of the great harvest I had in my compound. Due to my activeness regarding agriculture, my landlord last year, my landlord decide to give me more space inside our compound to plant some maize. But there are still some cassava plants left on this which he has planted a year and half back. I make some ridges in between the cassava plants and planted some maize but later on as the maize started growing, he called me and told me that the cassava on the land where I planted the maize won't let it grow properly and he told me to harvest all the cassava on the land to create more space for the maize plants.
My landlord helping with the cassava harvest
The harvest was a big one have ever had in a long time because I haven't harvest such a huge cassava like this before. He told that I can take all the cassava and used it to do any kind of food I like. This man has been generous and kind to me ever since I moved in to his house but given me a lot of cassava is another thing entirely because I knew the worth of what he gave me. It was indeed a long harvest for me and my wife, he even joined us to harvest at some point. The size of the cassava is what I haven't seen for a long time. Me and my wife have decided to used the cassava to make Garri and Cassava flour, though it will take a long process but I will make sure to keep you posted.
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