PLANT SOME OF THAT EXPENSIVE FOODSTUFF YOU BUY TO GET MORE VALUE

In my mini-garden I have Cocoyam and water yam growing- planted from remnants of the ones bought for eating.

But I don't have the normal sweet white yam   (Dioscorea rotundata)   that  is commonly known and eaten. Why? Because I have not bought it in a long time because it's outrageously expensive - you all know the price of this sweet  yam has been skyrocketing.

I was waiting for 'New Yam' to start arriving in the markets before buying in hope that the price of the yam would be considerably much lower. 

So imagine my shock when I asked for the price of this yam in the picture and was told - N2,000. Two thouuuuuusand for this  size of new yam grown here on Nigeria soil - Aaahhh!!!

So when I heard the price, I decided I was not  going to buy - some prices of what is grown here are just so annoying! There are other pressing needs other than food that also  need to be met.

But then I remembered I had been wanting to grow this type of yam in the mini-garden. It is based on that I bought this yam.  Well, I did get change of N200 after haggling further so I actually got it for N1,800

If you are able to grow some parts of that expensive foodstuff, you might not feel so crossed at the high price  as you would be able to get more value from it.

Even using the wastes of some foodstuffs to do something beneficial delivers more value to you than just eating - those are some of the ways we decrease pressures of current skyrocketing prices of items including food in the country.

You see these plantaiin peels, though I can use it to manure most plants in the garden, I prefer to use in manuring the Cocoyam, water yam plants and would also use to manure the sweet yam plants when they start growing.

Like they say in my home state - Ogun state to ginger people to work hard -''Omo Ogun Ise ya'.

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