No significant rain now since March 17th and over the last week or so only the occasional shower giving us the odd mm or two of rain we can't put off transplanting for any longer. We are using T-Tape (trickle tape) laid along rows of crops for irrigation. This is a long process as our water pressure only allows us to irrigate 2 or 3 rows at a time. We do usually have to do this for selected crops, depending on the weather, but with no significant rain due yet we're going to have to continue irrigating all transplants for now
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| Irrigating kale |
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and leeks
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| Young plants ready to be transplanted |
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| onions in Olantigh Fields, newly transplanted leeks to the right |
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| New Season's rainbow chard soon ready to harvest |
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| 2nd outdoor sowing of carrots, in need of hand-weeding (they have already been weeded between the rows using a tractor mounted hoe |
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| ...and here are the carrots after hand-weeding |
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| Cucumber, peppers and aubergines recently transplanted into a polytunnel |
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| Working very dry ground for llek transplants |
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