Hello Hive
Happy new day to us all. Today we are up very much early because of the work at hand. This week has been a long week of weeding of grasses for us.Grasses have filled up majority of the vegetables beds and farms almost at thesame time.
From the fluted Pumpkins farm down to the corn and pepper farms now. We started our weeding gradually and have been working on the farm from one location to the other.
You can see how vast the corn plots are, we had to even get extra hands to clear this up.
Next we are currently working in the pepper farm and this is how far we have gone with the work. A good portion of the farm is now clean. Work continues today.
Earlier before now I had already explained in a previous blog why we necessarily engage in manual weeding here rather than use herbicides on the veggies.
We cannot employ more hands as this get more capital intensive. Labourers charge a lot of money these days to assist us with work. Due to the current economy, a lot of people have hiked their service fees for labour in order for them to meet up with their needs. I don't blame them for these but I'm cases where the work gets overwhelming we don hesitate to ask for help.
While weeding and clearing yesterday I found yet another specie of pepper among the peppers we have planted.
They have born very tiny pepper seeds and like my late mum used to say that pepper seeds are of so many numerous specie a lot of these went into extinction and this is the first time I am seeing these varieties.
For cooking our meals we have our selected choices of pepper for various meals, for instance we use the long pepper ๐ถ๏ธ just like it looks here in this emoji for making moimoi, scotch bonnets and the big bell pepper are often preferred for stew and the list goes ok like that.
For this particular one, until we have harvested and tastes it before we can place value and proper use case for it.
After the harvest we can then know if it will be a hot pepper or of moderate hotness.
