The season to harvest ripe groundnut/peanuts is here just like we harvested corn after over 3months of planting, groundnuts as it is called here spend about 5months
In order to know if they are fully ripe, we uproot some and check for the maturity of the seeds.
In other instances the leaves turn from yellow to brown and then they begin to rust away that is just another way to know if the groundnuts underneath is fully ripe
Harvesting groundnuts is one of the most boring farm work I have ever known.
After uprooting all the plants, you have to sit down and plug out nuts one after the other from the groundnuts root.
We uproot groundnuts, then keep them in piles under shade to escape the hot sunlight
Occasionally we invite our neighbors and friends to come and join in the sorting out of the groundnut as it is time consuming and boring.
Now we have bags of groundnuts at home
The next thing to do is sun drying to preserve the seeds.
Thereafter we store them away from family rodents....
We use groundnut to make soup, groundnut pap, groundnut cake and several others you may be interested to see...
Groundnut harvest is done, I hope you can still see that we have guinea corn left in the same plot of land we have used for mixed farming to maximize available land space
There is still work to be done with rice yam and beans, and these are also major farm work calling our attention.
