Hello Hive.

Finally the Groundnuts we have planted late July are now producing their second flower, they are fast maturing up but cant be fast enough to make it to harvest so that we can free them from the beans. Been able to predict the weather very well is very essential for farming. And we must equally ensure go mix our crops appropriately in the case of mixed cropping. This is good to avoid losses in farming.

For groundnuts that have been planted in the month of July, it is important that if we want to plant them along side beans like we have done here, the beans can be planted in the month of September. That gives the Groundnuts some 3months ahead for its own growth and by the month of October they will be ready for harvest. There and then we can harvest them and give room for the beans to thrive as well which by this time they will be about a month old flowering for preparing for flowering.

Planting two leguminous crops is not a good farming practices but due to unavailability of land we will do in a sensible manner. You can plant the groundnuts on the ridges and then the beans will be by the sides giving the beans plant enough spacing.

It is often preferable to mix a Nitrogen fixing plant with another of counter action. Corn and Beans or corn and Groundnuts or the combination of either groundnuts and corn first with an addition of beans later.

The timing of planting for this beans was a bit miss calculated as it is approaching it's own flowering and productive days the Groundnuts are also at the same periods. I just hope that the both of them will do well together even though we planted them technically and calculatively devising their spacing

Contrary to the groundnuts we planted much earlier before the August break in which we lost a good amount of it to the August dry spell, these other groundnuts are doing much better.

The time of seed productivity of the former groundnuts fell to the dry spells period creating a great loss of our groundnut. This one's were planted at the right timing fo survive the dry spell and thrive well after it

It is hence good to predict the weather in order to plan our farming activities to either plant a crop and harvest it before the dry day or to plant our crops after the dry days are over.

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