Hello Hive

We were at the farm yesterday to continue with our rice work after a break and long week of weeding in our other crops farms.
Upon reaching the farm and hoping to continue with planting we realized that majority of our rice fields have now been submerged in water with no single spaces left for planting anymore. If we go through the labour of planting these rice in the soil like this, they may end up not producing anything hence the best way to propagate rice when the situation becomes like this is for us to transplant rice from the nursery into the field.

If you looked behind me here, you will see a portion of the rice grains we have earlier planted in the nursery hoping to transplant these while planting some other directly in the field. But now that the fields are covered in water we can no longer plant and the nursery rice won't be sufficient to cover the portion of our farms that are still remaining, we have no choice now than to plant more rice grains in the nursery.

Do you know the step involved in planting rice grains on the nursery bed? Follow me and see how I got this done

First step, I started with clearing the weeds in the portion of the farm where I want to nurse the grains. Since all the other locations are wet and submerged I have to look for a portion of the field where the land is not covered by water.
On this spot grasses have taken over.
I started by weeding the grasses, I was using both a how and cutlass for convinience. At some point if is fair to use a hoe but at another cutlass worked better.

Then the second step is the ground breaking or tilling if you prefer to call it that, we needed to break the soil and make them loose to accommodate the grains.
When the soil was loosed enough I spread the grains on the bed and began to cover them up with sand

Soon as I covered the planted grains with enough soil, I took up the grasses I had weeded from the farm earlier and used them to cover the rice grains, this is a form of mulching to prevent birds from picking and eating. If we leave any portion of the grains exposed, you will be shocked go see the number of birds that will come down here to feed. And whenever that have spotted this site for the very first time, they will keep coming and invite other birds until not much of the grains planted will be able to germinate.

Myself and my baby sister engaged in this task for about 3hrs yesterday

It was a bit of a tough exercise as the ground is damp and I kept encourage my baby sis as this was her first experience planting rice. She was so tired as I kept teaching her how to do these things.