Good day my lovely steem members, I hope all is good at your end? Stay with me as I gist you how my day at the farm today went.

Yesterday which was Saturday in Akwa Ibom State was a compulsory sanitation day which means everyone is supposed to cleanup their environment, streets, gutters and surroundings. As such, I took that opportunity to work on my little garden by the veranda of our compound.

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I started off by clearing the ground, picking up the sticks and dead leaves that were lying aimlessly on the ground and pushing them to one spot so I could burn them later. Next, I took a bold step, went to my neighbor's compound and borrowed shovel from them because the only farm tool I had was matchet and hoe. Afterwards, I called my brother to teal the ground with the shovel so as to make it soft for the crops I wanted to plant. Do not laugh at me 😂 for not being able to teal the ground myself.

Three days ago, I shade-dried my vegetable seeds against yesterday's planting and they were ready for use. Using my hoe, I digged a not-too big hole on the ground and inserted three seeds only into each hole and proceeded to cover the holes up with enough amount of sand. To put a mark on the places I have planted something, I used this stick as a mark so people will not step on that particular place or try to plant something else there. https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWTpCU3coHTS4JjwvV91ugd5jfr5rf3REF1aN6SC2UChv/IMG_20250222_145215_275.jpg This is how we do it in my village and everybody is aware of this practice.

Vegetable seeds were not the only thing I planted. I also planted wateryam. This is one tuber crop I love because it can be used to prepare different kind of local dishes that are so palatable in the taste bud, example; ekpang nkukwo, a local dish made with wateryam tuber and cocoyam. ![IMG_20250222_145231_973.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmfLwybpRzQHYSn1biPCysKoRyrDdMjdmX4uPwdQT3yYvj/IMG_20250222_145231_973.jpg)

Finally, I didn't only plant my dear friends, I was also blessed with bountiful harvest of wateryams I planted last year. The harvest were so big that it will be used to prepare a sumptuous meal for my family. ![IMG_20250222_145113_193.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmR4ddNEoV6vy1Bwt6GtWe8z3nNFPkYkQ9vusW2dSWfBPQ/IMG_20250222_145113_193.jpg) ![IMG_20250222_145105_028.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQcX2e7iypdg2SugXohpQwWoanRNwKr2EMYvCfj1tu1o3/IMG_20250222_145105_028.jpg) Thank you very much for staying with me till the end of this writeup. I am glad I could share my day with this family.