Hello steemains good morning or whatever time you are reading this post. We are in the 3rd week of the Steemit Engagement challenge season 2 and today this amazing community in it's effort to promote nature and protect the environment has launched yet an amazing contest. Luckily for me the contest falls with a day I had a plan to plant some bitter leaf around the farm beside my house. So in this post I will take you through the various steps of it.

PLANTING BITTER LEAF

Bitter leaf is a very common plant in Africa. We use it to prepare one of our most beautiful African delicacies like Ndole, Bitter leaf soup, Nang tare(cocoyam) etc. It has a very bitter taste as the name says but it can be washed to reduced it's bitterness. It also has numerous benefits like protect against prostate cancer, increases fertility, relieve insomnia, stomach ache and fever. So you see, it does not only increase nature, it is good for us.

PLANTING PROCESS

In the next steps I will illustrate how I planted this bitter leaf in a farm just beside my house.

• Step 1.

The first thing to do is to get a seed to plant. Luckily, the bitter leaf plant is not so complicated to get a seed. You can look around for any bitter leaf and cut the stems. Which is exactly what I did to have the seeds I have in the picture below.

• Step 2.

The next I had to look for a place to put my plant. So decided to plant beside the road at the edge of the farm. So I dug a hole. The hole is not supposed to be very deep, just enough to hold the plant.

• Step 3.

After digging I had to place the plant inside and covered the hole with the soil that was removed during digging. As you can see, the soil is holding the plant.

• Step 4.

The lady step required me to write my username on a piece of paper and snap by the plant and I did that as you can see.

The beautiful thing about the bitter leaf is that you can use it for as long as 5 years. You cut just the leafs and use to prepare what ever food you want and it keeps growing. Below are pictures of the bitter leaf when it is grown and ready to be used. Bitter leaf doesn't really need any other work for it to flourish, it's a good plant and grows very well in Africa.

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Below are images of the various food that can be cooked from bitter leaf and if you are from Cameroon or Nigeria you know what I mean especially us the Anglophones.

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CONCLUSION

As you can see from the explanation and image above and in my effort to conserve and protect the planet Earth, I decided to plant a bitter leaf. One of best thing about it is that it doesn't require much care for it to grow.

I do thank the Moderators of this community for such a beautiful contest. I have gotten to do this activity and I will definitely be enjoying from it on future.

Thank you for reading and I hope I didn't bore you that much.

I invite my friends @dholy1, @chiabertrand and @majerius to participate in this contest.