Hello

We finally endured the rain spell and today our crops are up and doing. Though we lost a good sum of our rice field to the excessive dryness. The beans weren't badly affected and I can't even explain the mechanism if ho the survived. The good thing now is that our beans back and doing well.

One thing I have learnt about the dry spells now is how we can preserve our crops during such duration. For instance instead of transplanting our rice grains towards the period we would be experiencing this dry spell it will be a good approach is we leave them in nursery and then transplant them now.

Note that you can still transplant rice seedlings in the month of September. Any rice you plant in your nursery on or before the dry spells of August can still be transplanted in this period. All you need to do is to either transplant the rice early that is in the month of June/July, then they will be tall and strong enough to survive the drouth of August. This is just some new discovery/though/or idea perceive it will be useful for us next session planting.

The rains are back the beans survived the rain break and are hence doing well now. Any moment from now, we should be expecting to see some flowering as they are about a month old and ready for that.