Welcome to another bright and beautiful day in the land of the living. And guess up I was a bit up much earlier today, having skipped dinner last night I have been woken up by a hunger pang that had almost denied me some quality sleep. We ran out of corn flour which I had barely noticed because of how much we have been busy lately.
We still have a little left of the corn we have harvested last year. The end product of when we are not eating our corn fresh is how we often sun dry the corns and blend them at the mill into powdered form.
This corn flour is one of the importance and cheap local food available here, not everyone can afford to purchase Semovita in the market which is the processed form of wheat flour, but corn flour is a cheaper version. When people turn wheat flour in form of Semovita, we make our own corn flour with soup for consumption. By the end of today we will have process the remaining corn into flour for our food.
We have been moving from one farm to the other, doing one task or the other, so for this week you may have noticed that we decided to weed some of the grasses that were begining to bother our crops. The potatoes, bambaranuts and a portion of the corn farm were overwhelmed with grasses.
Gradually we have manually weeded and pushed away the grasses, I didn't know that it will take that much of our time but the farms are clean now and the crops are growing fast and healthy.
Grasses among actuvely growing crops can cause a set back to their growth if the farms are not attended to on time.
Having completed the weeding exercise yesterday, we would be returning back to where we have stopped with the planting of our rice.
Our plans and next line of activities is a return into the rice work we have been engaging in.
It's surprising to see how a single downpour has stored this much water in the rice field. We can no longer continue planting in this location, only transplanting can be done here now. Transplanting has to be done hurriedly before the water also becomes too much for the seedlings to bear. The rice seedlings has only grown to a certain length and even though they will survive well in much water after transplanting, too much of water that submerge any seedling after Being transplanted can also cause it get rotten. Rice water in these fields some times rise as high as a human knee length but before then the seedlings must have been planted and grown to certain height above the waters.
