It's the last week of February and we're starting to plant our first spring vegetables. We have a great crew to help us. We use an old converted tobacco setter to put the plants in the ground. The plants have been growing in the greenhouses located in the Back Forty and are the perfect size for transplanting into the field.
This video shows Benton driving the tractor and Christina on the plant setter, putting cauliflower in the field. The rows are mounded up and covered in plastic. This allows better weed control, better irrigation and makes it nicer for picking! The setter pokes holes in the plastic. Christina is dropping a plant in every other hole to get the correct spacing for when the plants start to grow. You can get a quick glance of Farmer John in the background, he's writing some labeling for the different varieties of cauliflower!
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