Hello Hive

Happy new week to us all, I hope that we have had the very best of the weekend and are much more refreshed go face the new day.

Just like you all know we started the harvest of our lettuces last week and a significant quantity has already been harvested. Since the lettuce weren't all planted in thesame day, the stages of their growths differ and some are still growing up.

Recently we have been having consistent daily heavy downpour and this is what it has now costs our lettuce.

The leaves closer to the ground are already withering off. Lettuce are a very fragile veggies, they do not need excess water neither do they stand extreme dryness. The conditions has to be friendly in between. Despite the fact that the ridges for this plants were cultivated very much high up from the ground, they were still affected by the heavy downpour with water permanently staying in the farm now.

If lettuce were cultivated during the dry seasons, a good amount of money will be needed for irrigation, and if they are likewise cultivated during periods of extreme downpour as this the equally get affected by extreme rains.

Anyone that whishes to grow lettuce should learn these things. If you can find some well drained soil that is rich in manure or very much fertile them such lands will be the best for growing lettuce. One can equally plan the timing for planting this to the period of lesser downpour.

While waiting for these last batch to get ready for harvest I just hope that the rains won't bother them too much this time around.

September is usually the peak of rainfall in this place and I can tell you how challenging it has made our rice farming become. There was a heavy downpour last night again and I fear so much they the seedlings we have transplanted during the weekends must have been flushed away again. Timing is really important for growing most crops and the weather conditions this year is not aligning with the timing we use for most of our fameing activities.