My Small Garden #180

Hello beautiful ladies of Hive. Trust the Holiday celebration finds you in good spirit!

This week presents an amazing contest for agriculturist of which I am one, thanks to @kerrislravenhill, honestly the increase in the price of foodstuffs in the Nigerian market made me for long ago think of cultivating crops on my farm land. I usually do so yearly because it gives me additional income from the sales.

My dad gave me the farm land as my inheritance, although I had the intention of building on it, though finances where constraints to me. I couldn’t let that weigh me down I just had to opt into using the piece for farm activities.

Can you see my cassava? Do you like them? I cultivated that myself during a faithful weekend. Although I had someone to till the ground for me, make some ridges whilst I plant the cassava stems. It takes 6 – 8 months before my cassava produces. And when it does, I will process it into garri (A traditional west African Food made from cassava roots) which is the most common yet expensive food items in the market.

I should have cultivated yam but I wanted to do them in sacks, although I am still estimating the cost for it. I needed to find where I can get good yam seedlings for the next plant.
I reserve some of my produce for my personal use with the kids. It could take up to four months before it gets exhausted. Not only cassava I decided to plant but orange and pawpaw long ago and it yields makes a good fruit. I sell the orange too but keeps the pawpaw due to the fact its produce isn’t many.

What prompted me into farming was the covid season, we were locked in our own houses with instructions and not permitted to even go to the market.

People who took advantage of it were those who had subsistent farms. They could easily meet a neighbor to purchase plant based food items such as water leaves, scent leaves, curry, vegetables and bitter leaf (I hate this leaf with passion) and prepare soup. This has been my farming experience.

My Thrift Shopping Experience

Long ago when I was in the university in 2018. I joined my friends to go shopping at a market where we bought some Okirika otherwise known as thrift shopping. Could you believe I bought a trousers and took it home for washing had a dollar in it? because I regularly observe washing of every new or old clothes I purchase before I can wear them on my body. As I washing, I found a 1$ note inside. It seems the seller had no idea that such amount was inside. That was my surprising amazing treasure I found.

Thanks so much for reading though my entry, I wish you all good luck and stress free days. Bye for now.

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