Hello Hive
It was exactly in the last week of the month of August that we planted these beans, and you can see how well they have developed now.
It is already at the flowering stage, and a moment from now some bean seeds would be developing here right along side the flowers. We have gone to check on the progress of the beans and to check on any potential pestilence.
Beans is one of the crops that is known to be highly infected by pestilence. There are different bean diseases; some affect the leaves while others affect the seed pods when they begin to develop.
This has been a major challenge with growing beans. Even after harvest and storage, we still have to continually monitor our beans against insects and weavils.
Back in those days we had no possible solution to these pestilences, and my mom had often used crude methods to protect our stored beans if we were lucky to harvest any from the farm, but now there are various chemicals we can use for such purposes.
Whenever the beans get to this stage of growth, the next step is to get chemicals and spray the plant weekly. The exercise is often done weekly until harvest. Having checked on our beans, I have seen that they are ready for such exercise as well, and it will be a part of our schedule for the week to get some chemicals ready for spraying these.
We do have to pay keen attention to these since they do not take longer periods to produce seeds. Hence, after planting, we often stay very close to bean farms up until harvest. The possibility of growing beans and having them mature within 40 days is still a wonder to me, but technology has made this happen by reducing the 3-month life cycle of beans that we are familiar with to what we have today. Although we still have a lot of farmers who prefer to grow the beans with a longer growth cycle, their reason for doing so has been something I don't understand.
A lot of people do not want to eat engineered food as such because of unforseen health reasons, although I do hope that the agricultural engineers that provide us with these seeds must have experimented and checked for potential health reasons. Myself and my family have been growing these seeds for years now.
