Hello Hive.
Alot of challenges comes with multi cropping, some times all these crops will be calling your attention to come remove weed or do other stuff for different crop and at the same time. Such is the challenges we are currently facing.
Tomorrow I will be checking on the rice farm to see if weed is taking over or not. Both groundnut and rice field needs our attention.
Though I haven't keep up with a regular post for the growth stages of most of my crops growing in the farm, there is alot to be done like I said earlier and keeping track of everything is a whole lot of task.
Further more I have been combining my farm work and oneajor current training am undergoing but training has to give way for this important harvest task now.
Harvest is more important unless I want our grains to go bad.
The groundnut journey.
Our groundnut seeds were planted in the month of May, although the best planting time for groundnut in the north is March, but in Kwara, May is more favorable because of a moderate rainfall.
We cleared weeds and made ridges than went ahead to plant two grains per hole about side by side with only a feet distance difference between each hole.
Working on the farm always gets my countenance like this. Stress is no mans friend but the fruit of it is sweet therefore we try as much to endure the discomfort for the final result it will produce.
Flowering begins exactly a month after planting, that is first flower.
Groundnut usually produce two set of flowers before maturity.
Weeding was mechanically done by hired workers since we were busy with beans ridges and corn harvest.
Groundnut maturity...
The sign of maturity is this yellowing of leaves after about 4months of planting.
Once you have it yellow like this, next thing is to check the pods and seeds for proper sign of maturity.
If the pods aren't fully ripe, we leave it for another two weeks, pull up another pont then check again or give it another two weeks.
Not all the pods will be fully riped in the end so harvest can commence when it is 80% of the pods ripe.
We did check about two weeks ago and hopefully harvest will commence soon.