The first week of May was a busy one. Seeding, transplanting, weeding, cultivating, and so on. Much of the time was spent on laying drip tape to irrigate many of our crops. This can be a time consuming process. Besides making all the connections, it involves holding the drip tape by hand and walking down each row and making sure the tape is properly placed along the row. To give you an idea, one of our brassica fields has 33 rows that add up to a total of 6,900 row/feet. That's more than 1.3 miles of drip tape in that one field.
Cassie gives Kenji a welcome interruption from his work. Kenji was connecting drip tape to an irrigation hose.
We also increased the size of the herb garden by the Wash Station. There will be some herbs this season, but it would be in a couple of years or so when the newly planted perennials reach an acceptable size.
Dave working on a foot path between the herb beds, while Kenji and Carrie are figuring out what to plant in one of the newly dug beds.
Gail Taylor digging out garlic chives to move them to a new location. Gail was a frequent volunteer last year and now we are very happy that she is part of this year's farm staff.
Susan Topping and Janie Hill-Williams seeding trays for one of Susan's projects at the farm. Susan works for the Capital Area Foodbank and Janie is a Clagett Farm volunteer.
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