Today I would like to share with us how that this singular specie of vegetable has been giving me a major concern and challenge whole trying to grow it on my garden space here.
The first time I attempted growing this when I started gardening, I had both lizard invasion that ate up the growing seedlings while those that survived that attack were then completely destroyed by a pestilence
Jute mallow
While that session did pass and I started another season with much more preparation another just came up. Whenever the veggies are trying to germinate and because their leaves and stems are really soft, I have snails infesting and feeding on the veggies.
Having made it a duty to visit and pick out the snails daily today it is viable that the garden space where I had planted this particular veggies is now empty. It is only the African spinach that has continually experienced this challenge.
I was more than prepared to do all it takes to grow that specie of vegetables here, including buying some pest chemical control so that when it grows to the stage of getting infected I can use that as a control to keep away pest. But from all indications for now it seems like I won’t be able to grow this particular specie here. We have loads of snails in the compound but rather and feed on grasses or any other vegetables they prefer to feed on my spinach.
Here is the now empty African spinach portion of the garden space.
Everyday I pick out countless numbers of snails here until I got tired of them.
It will be a continually wasted efforts for me plant African spinach here and instead of that I can look for other species of veggies to plant.
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The Lagos spinach here is already calling for me to weed out the grasses choking it already. But because they are really so tiny here, trying to pick out the grass will equally uproot the vegetables. Hence I'm leaving them to grow together for a while.
The Jute mallow and other specie of veggies, my Lagos spinach here is doing very well. Also my water leaves here as well. I’m waiting for the water leaf seeds to mature so that I can disperse them again. That way I can grow a fairly good amount of water leaf from this few stems of it that I have for now. Since we are having like a break of the rains in this month I have to take up a morning duty of wetting the garden.
The tomatoes 🍅 and chilli pepper 🌶 seedlings are also growing really fast and will soon be transplanted to their permanent sites.
It is a pity that I have to take out the African spinach veggies, I will look around for more seeds and varieties of other veggies that can thrive here.
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