Hello dear fellow Hivers and people of the great community of Agricultural Mindset. I hope we are all doing well. Today is a good day and I hope you have good times.
After my activities in our pawpaw farm yesterday, I am still very tired. So today I decided to work on our little garden in our compound. This garden has a lot of plants there such as the pepper, bitter leaf, water leaf,tomato, pumpkin and others. Below are some of the pepper plants I grew from nursery and transplanted and are now flourishing.
So today, I did the transplant of my nursery plants to the garden. Anytime we cook with fresh peppers,I normally get the seeds and sprinkle them in my nursery pots. There were many that grew but I had to do some thinning ( thinning in agriculture is the process of purposefully uprooting some plants to allow the remaining ones to flourish by having more nutrients, space and water.
I was so happy when I saw the sky looking cloudy and I predicted that it may not really be sunny to kill my transplanted plants.
When transplanting, it has to be done either early in the morning or late in the evening to reduce the risk of the plants dying from heat from the sun. So that's why I had to carry out the activity this morning.
After I took my nursery pots to the garden,here were the steps I took in the transplant:
1: I first dug some holes for each of the pepper plants using my machete.
2: Next was to get the pepper plants from the nursery pots to the holes. This is a crucial stage as any mistake made can cut the roots and the chance of survival of the plants will be too slim.
3: After placing them into the holes, I covered them up with sand.
4: I didn't let them thrive,I still watered them before leaving.
I don't have a watering can but there is one quality every farmer must have,the gift of improvisation. Since I didn't have a watering can and I needed my watering to come in sprinkles, I had to improvise with a bottle. I nailed open the cover of the bottle and filled it with water and it became my watering bottle/can.
After the whole activity,I proceeded to wash my equipment. This is a form of maintenance. Every farmer must learn how to maintain the implement he/she uses. After washing,I had to keep them outside to dry.
In conclusion,I would love to expose us to the importance of pepper fruits to the body. Just like the pawpaw,it contains vitamin C for good immunity and vitamin E for good reproduction. It still contains other useful minerals which are more ambiguous for our learning here.
Thanks for visiting and reading my post. I hope and believe you must have learned something good.