Some economy of action has occurred with our work across the
river. The boss has purchased irrigation pods which are strung out in row
of up to ten. They water more slowly than the irrigation units we
normally use but this is positive because they only need setting up
once each day. Whereas the other irrigation units travel forward on a
cable slowly and pour on a set amount of water the pods just spit out
a pulsating and rotating spray on a timer. The more water needed the
longer the time set. Great idea because they are set up in the
morning and water for 24 hours on the harder country and 8-12 hours
on the better soil. Because of that innovation I only need to visit
in the morning, feed the cattle position the pods and home again.
Jean follows up later in the day to harrow or do any other chores.
We are continuing our work on cleaning up garden beds with good
results even though the weather is uncomfortably hot and humid the
good results are an incentive to continue.
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| A blank space where we removed a grape cutting starter bed. |
This post comes late because we converted from a prepaid internet
connection to a fixed line ADSL. The changeover knocked us off line
for a day while we waited for everything to be connected. The fault
being ours because we left it too long to sign up and the prepaid
service expired.
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