Hello Hive

A beautiful weekend to my hivers and homesteaders. Weekend is always full of work in the farm as people have more time to work. Up until now the work in the farm still remains cultivation and planting and the rain has been very favourable for us with consistent downpours

Virtually everything we plant germinates really well and because of the rains it is very difficult for sparrows to pick up planted grains. Before now whenever we plant grains and there is not sufficient rains hungry birds will trace our footsteps to pull up the planted grains and due to this we usually plant more grains than the required so that whenever birds picks up some if the grains we would still be left with a few. Other times we have to replant a second time whenever the grains do not germinate or have been picked up and eating by birds.

Checkout how our sorghum have all germinated pretty well, there will be no need for any replacement and this is exactly thesame way our peas/groundnuts equally germinated.

Groundnut seeds are really expensive at this time and I am so glad that we have reserved some of the groundnuts till now for planting. My siblings are use to eating a lot of peas early such that they often eat up the seeds with the harvest but this time around we have to hide some peas for them so as to get something to plant for this year.

The sorghum was bought at the agric store as we didn't want to plant from the ones harvested last year, the ones in the agric stores are usually prepared yearly and it's important to plant quality grains.

We aren't fortunate to plant yams or any other tubers this year. My dad insisted on not planting them as thieves often find it easy to invade yam farms and steal tubers. For now we have only planted groundnuts, sorghum, corn and are preparing for rice planting.