Hello Hive

Happy new day to us all, I hope that we all had a refreshing night and are very much relieved of yesterday stress. We got back quite early from the farm yesterday at about none after achieving what we have gone to do in the farm.

I did pick up some bambaranuts I had boil and ate yesterday. Having remember to take some pictures when I was picking the nuts I completely forgot to take some pictures of how to prepare the bambaranuts after I boiled it for my family to eat

This is bambaranuts for those of you who do not know what I am talking about. It is grown in a much similar way as peanuts. It's delicious to eat and we also have various local recipe we make of it. It is protenious in nature and a legunious crops not like your other cereals.

When it is fresh like this, the seeds within is often very very soft and can be eaten. But whenever it has been processed and dried, it can no longer be eating but can be prepared into other forms of meal. I decided to open some of the seeds pods so that you can see what they look like within.

The are ripe and ready for harvest. But there is a dilemma regarding their harvest. They can be harvested fresh like this and spread out to dry. And they can also be harvested dried which means they will be allowed to stay in the farm until when the rains stops, and the sun is hot enough to get them dried right from where they are under the ground.

The moment I noticed some changes in the leaves and how that some of the leaves are begining to get burnt I knew that the nuts are ready for harvest. I decided to pull up some of the plants to see the extent to which they were ready for harvest.

And to also pickup some to eat with my family at home. After pulling them up, I noticed that they were not all ready for harvest as some of the seeds are quite tiny in size and can grow bigger if left.

We are yet to decide which harvest method to us.
Maybe harvesting them fresh or allowing them to dry in the ground as both methods have advantages and disadvantage.

If we harvest them fresh as they are, we will be saddled with the responsibility of sun-drying them daily until it gets dried. And because we are still in a period of heavy rainfall we may end up spending over a month spreading them daily without them getting dried.

And if they are left in the farm until the raininh seasons are over the sun can have them dried from underneath the ground. They will become dried to a good reasonable amount before we pick them up, but harvesting them friend is often harder and a much slower work then harvesting them fresh. That is the dilemma that comes with growing harvesting bambaranuts. One has to stick to a plan that is most convinient.