ANOTHER PINEAPPLE SET TO EMERGE FROM SAME SHOOT

...more beans harvest in mini-garden

I harvested pineapple in July for the first time in this mini-garden from a pineapple plant.

Recently I  noticed that new leaves are growing and setting for the emergence of another pineapple. 

I am putting out this information in case you have harvested pineapple from the plant and the leaves appear to be drying off. 

Rather than cut off or uproot the plant,  continue watering and manuring - which is what I did. 

I had read sometime ago that from one plant, at least two pineapple fruits  can emerge but not simultaneously. After the harvest of one, another can still emerge. 

So, after harvesting the second pineapple, I would still try to get a third one to emerge -- don't call me Oliver Twist o😀

It's quite tasking preparing the land or sack of soil to grow crops, so if you are able to get more than one set of harvests from a crop, it's so relieving and really exciting.

The same goes for the only bean plant currently in this mini-garden. After I harvested the beans a minrh ago- about a milk cup more or less, another set is growing. This time I am not harvesting and eating as green beans. I am allowing the bean pods to dry somewhat before harvesting.

Then after harvesting, I further dry - the beans are as brown as the ones sold in the market 😮- this first time practical experience of growing beans would no  doubt be pivotal to growing beans on large scale - hence the excitement. 

I have learnt for instance the reason commercial bean farmers spray chemical pesticides on beans -  insects won't just leave the beans alone. Even though I understand, I don't agree  to the use of chemicals- so prepare to  use an organic pesticide even when growing beans on large scale.

 Currently I use Neem leaves to control the pests and this can be used in making organic pesticide. 

OTHER GIST 

Apart from the growing mango tree I put a tyre over about two weeks ago, I have other mango seedlings. There is a second seedling also becoming a tree but it's in a very small sack. 

Some people have expressed concerns that growing fruit trees in sacks is starving them. 

Since that is the palliative at my disposal  for now, I gat to use what I have to do what I can o - abeg.

So today I  transplanted this second small mango tree into a bag of rice 😁 I mean rice-bag - the sack is a bit bigger than the other sacks I have been using. 

The  old  sack the mango tree was growing in was heavier than I thought - I didn't know I would be  able to carry it until I lifted it. .

 So behold the second mango tree in the bag of rice -  see pictures. I also added more soil from other sacks and remnants of fruits to manure

After breakfast of African cake  made with plantain flour, corn flour, soya bean flour, natural oil, butter, eggs and honey  to sweeten, I am not fatigued - tired but not worn-out.  Also hunger didn't attack me today while working.😁

 I took African cake for breakfast with the fresh lemon grass/mint tea and freshly made soya milk so I can still be alert to spend considerable time on mentally-tasking reading and writing today - uuuummm...I have a question - it seems that sort of light meal has affinity with Oyinbo-kinda work while swallow foods seem to have affinity with  heavy work like farming? Is that true? Still hypothesis that can be proved or disproved.

But  I am also discovering that farming is not just physically-tasking but also mentally-tasking. If you know how my brain works over-time on how to counteract challenges and  achieve best results in this mini-garden farming, you'll believe.

Anyway  I will try reward this body today  with pounded yam  and  very nourishing native  soup for the farming work. 😘

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