Greetings!
Welcome to the planting season with the heralding drop of the rain, a season that turns brown to green. A season that gives life to seedling, a season that gives lives to dead plants. The planting season is here again.
Though, it's not that I just planted my plants, I have planted them since a year back, but the rate of their germination has been stunted and this has really been of a concern to me.
Just last year, I planted my cocoyam and plantain sucker on an unused portion of space in my compound. This planting was made towards the tail end of the rainy season and because of this, it's so difficult for these plants to grow as they ought to. I tried my best towards making them grow at a rate where I would be able to harvest them at the appropriate time, but all my effort was all to no avail, due to lack of enough rain that would have watered them naturally.
Not only this, I also tried using the well water in my compound to water these plants, but due to the dry season, the well dried up, and the other well in our neighborhood also dried up. I wasn't happy with what was happening, but at the same time, I still wake up, to fetch water from the well as early as possible and the little I could get back then, I used it in watering the plants, but these can be compared to the real watering that supposed to take place in the plants as this could not have any effect on their growth.
Even my okra plant that withered away due to the lack of water or rain as a result of the dry season has come back to life as a result of the watering that has taken place in such a short time when the rainy season has started. In fact, the power of water on plants cannot be overemphasized as it brings the life in plants to manifest.
But thank God, for this current raining season that has brought my dead plants to live again, now what I'm witnessing as a result of natural watering of the plant by the rain and not only this my the availability of enough water at my disposal just to wet the plant by myself has really been encouraging has the dead plant has sprouted back to live and now, what I'm expecting is for my plants to bring forth fruit as soon as possible.
This is my entry to weekly prompt in the hivegarden community
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That's it, the importance of water can not be overemphasized.
For places that lack manual way of water supply,not becomes very hard to meet up with the watering of plants. Just like my compound, there are days I don't get water to keep up the streak and it so bad
Hmmm, but we still have to keep monitoring the plants. Thanks for stopping by
Lovely post and Lonely plant... It's great to see how your plants have come back to life with the rain ☔️💚 #HiveGardenCommunity #PlantLove #Spring
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Ah, lack of water is such a concern. Have you ever heard of wicking beds or wicking pots? They are self watering. You might have some sucess growing some things in that way?
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