Many people are not aware that African pumpkin are highly planted and grown in Nigeria due to the fact not only for soup cooking but also because of how good African pumpkin is using the leaves for treatment of malaria, convulsion, and others. African pumpkin is very powerful from its seed to the leaves as in even the seed are used for the massive making of soap which many people believed to be medicinal.
With most of the qualities of African pumpkin in Nigeria the planting and growing it has increased than many years ago when people only relied on the cooking use. I usually think African pumpkin seeds are only for planting but I have seen another important it can serve in soap making. Where African pumpkin plays excellent work for for blood and immune boosting especially for mothers who newly gave birth.
To take about the planting of African pumpkin it's usually with the use of the seed. The seed are reserved from the African pumpkin which produces the pod covering the seeds. Before talking about time to plant African pumpkin seed the seeds will first have to be removed from its flesh. The seed has a flesh from the pod which is important to be removed and after the removal the seeds are also important to go into drying from natural sunlight.
Before the planting of African pumpkin there're so many ways which this vegetable can be planted the use of plastic rubber, sac, bowel, and even planting native pot. Anything can be important for the planting of African pumpkin but what matters is the tools having soil and allow atmosphere and sunlight access to the planting tools.
Some farmers has complained that some of the African pumpkin seed which they planted don't usually grow and with what I saw after following them to their farm I saw that the way the planted the African pumpkin was not good to allow the seed germinate from the soil. It's very important to monitor the placing of the African pumpkin into the spil, the seed tip must be faced down and the seed must be well covered to avoid sun heating and decaying the seed which will make them not to grow. After many education and ideas shared together with other farmers many now enjoy their African pumpkin growth.