Hello Hive

Happy weekend to us all; the weekend is upon us, and it's time for more homestead activities. The weekdays are usually surrounded by many activities, leaving us very little time to work on the farms, but the weekend is a blessing for farmers, especially those who manage two jobs; offices are closed for today, and everyone can do other activities.

After sewing school uniforms for my neighbors' kind yesterday, the rest of the evening was spent on the farm and my garden in readiness for planting and growing vegetables for this season.

It has been a blessing that the rains have been pretty much consistent, and the temperature of the soil is now cool for planting almost anything. Vegetables in particular will enjoy this weather better.

Right here on the spot, when I have grown veggies in the previous years, we have some vegetables already flourishing on the land. I was so surprised to see them and wondered how the seeds must have stayed dormant in the soil for months and throughout the hot and dry days. Since my neighbor needed vegetables, I plucked out all the veggies in the land for them to use for their evening meals.

For a while now, everyone has been anxious to know whether I would be growing some veggies for them or not. Everyone in the compound benefitted from the veggies I grew, such that as soon as the rains began, they were all looking out to when I would have the compound here filled with fresh vegetables.

I already purchased the seeds I will be planting. Having gotten seeds of jute mallow, African spinach, and Lagos spinach , though I'm still on the lookout for other good veggie seed species. In addition to these, I'm equally lucky that some veggie seeds were able to grow in our farms and have reached the maturity stage.

It is most times difficult to find quality veggie seeds, and whenever we are lucky enough to do so, we often nurture the plant to the seed production stage so that harvest such quality seeds for another session's planting.

Those are the seeds we have here, and while they are maturing and drying up, I will be harvesting and replanting them. This time around, it's all about vegetable planting and cultivation while we look out for how to grow our grains for the year.