Hello Hive

It's a beautiful morning and you can guess the reason for my excitement. Harvest is just by the corner and we will be starting with this particular corn. The first set of our corn will be ready for harvest in the next two weeks. We have gone round inspecting the corn field both for maturity or to check for any form of disease invasion.

Before now this was the same field where we have had some fall army worms invading the corn. We were lucky to have noticed such on time as it is really a commendable habit to always inspect your plant from time to time and from one end of the farm to another. This was the reason we were able to notice the infection on time.

To arrest it from spreading we uprooted the infected plants and had them burnt, this was the only natural way to prevent this. We didn't eventually use chemicals since the disease was intercepted early enough from spreading.
Most times people are in a hurry to use chemicals on time but it will be good to always look for natural solutions to this kind of menace to such avoid excessive use of chemicals in our farms.

The only times I appreciate the need to use chemicals in farm is basically for weeding. Weeding is a hard labour compare to all other farming task and if there are chemicals that can save us from such heavy stress it is only fair to adopt and use a moderate amount of it, but for some other farm challenges that are less of a hard task we can try to seek for natural solutions to such.

Our first corn harvest will be coming up shortly, these are the ones we harvest and eat fresh without drying or processing it into powder. Fresh corn ears are eating , roasted, boiled or prepared into pudding. The latter corn we often grow are the ones we store, process and prepare into powder like the wheat and Semolina sold in the market which we can now use to prepare corn flour mill in such other.

For now there is no issues with our corn, that are all growing fine as we highly anticipate harvest. There has not been any outbreak of the Infection since the first time and we are happy that it didn't destroy a good part of the plant.