Hello Hive
It's another day of work in the lettuce farm and I want to share with hive the successes we have experienced with growing lettuce.
The lettuce are about 3weeks old now since the day they were transplanted, do not forget that they were first grown in nursery for about a month before being transfered here.
After transplanting lettuce, it takes about 6weeks maximum to have them harvested, mostly harvest starts from when they are 40days old. Hence we can wrap it up to say that you only need just two months to grow lettuce.
Even though we are experiencing massive progress with growing lettuce I can tell you that a lot is being spent to grow these. The rains have ceased one more time like it did in the month of July, lettuce cannot survive a week without water hence they must be grown beside a river and then supplemented with irrigation. Right after experiencing this dryness for more than a week now, machines have been brought and water pumped into the lettuce farm above.
Lettuce demands the continue flow of water and a quality soil for it to produce well. And then again the farm has been kept from grasses completely.
Before the machine could pump the water yesterday we have weeded the grasses and prepared the farm. Meanwhile we are in rice tranplanting seasons but we have to pause one work sometimes to attend to any farm that needs urgent attention.
The pattern of rainfall this year has been very challenging for our farming exercise. It paused most activities when are meant to do them. And it also hinders plant growth when they are meant to grow appropriately.
Only this salad that is lucky to enjoy some water from irrigation, other farms are very farm from river source and even if you dig a well within the farm to wet the land, diesels are very expensive to be purchased to sponsor this. For both commercial and subsistence farming, it is very expensive to grow anything here due to economic conditions.
The lands we used to grow crops are leased to us, we purchase herbicides and fertilizers, coming to add diesel will be a whole lot, hence regardless of these various challenges we still follow the nature to grow the little food we can for our won consumption.
We are not sure of which farm to work on today yet until we get to the farm.
