Hello Hive.

Happy new day to my beloved homestead community, it has been a very long weekday and line up of activities for us. Today will be the day of harvest as everything has now been finalized to harvest the lettuce. If you are a lettuce fan, it is time to enjoy these big fresh bunches of veggies. I have various free Lettuce recipe I often prepare and I hope that I will be able to prepare some of those recipe for us this weekend.

A look at the lists of crops we have planted in this new farming season so far you will see the corn here doing well for herself

The Groundnuts have now taken roots in the ground and are about to pickup a pace from here.

Potatoes and Cassava are the only tubers we have planted this year.

We just got started with the planting and transplanting of rice.

While the next lineup of crops will be beans, bambaranuts, millet or sorghum. Those ones are often planted towards the third quarter of the year.

Having completed the farming work for the day we decided to check up on these fluted pumpkins as they are no longer producing fresh vegetables for consumption. We have plant to take them out and plant something else on the land for a while now before a lot of other activities took over. Even after leaving these for about a month, there has not been any positive changes in the fluted pumpkins which is an indication for us to let go.

Just like I already said earlier, that the fluted pumpkins often planted for commercial purpose does not often have a longer lifespan compared to the one that is usually planted for personal use. After repeated harvest of this one for sale, they no longer produce fresh leaves that are edible.
Although some people still harvest and sell them, but most times I do not appreciate when fluted pumpkins veggies become so hard.

Since it is now the season for planting bambaranuts, we are planning to use this very site to plant that Crop. The soil looks very much good enough for this purpose.
Bambaranuts planting requires the use of properly drained sandy-loam soil compared to rice. Every type of crops have their specific soil requirements for growth and if we don't make the right decisions by planting them in the right places the quality of the growth of some crops might be affected by the soil they get planted upon.