By fexonice on Skatehive
When I saw the rain fell two days consecutively in February, I thought I could prepare my garden and plant some early maize and vegetables, but little did I know that the rainfall was just a flash in the pan and the planting season is not yet here at all. I had planned to cultivate the open spaces in my backyard and side of the house this year, and I reason since it's a home garden project I can do the planting of crops early without worrying about the traditional timeline, but mother nature would have something to teach me about being a farmer and the right time to plant seeds. When the rain came in February, I thought it was the start of the raining season. Perhaps we were going to have an early rain season this year, so I quickly prepared my seeds and planted them, and I was happy about the prospect of harvesting early crops before others in my community could even begin their planting season, but I was wrong. The rain came twice and stopped but it was enough for my seed to germinat