We live in a massive arable farming area where rapeseed, potatoes, leeks, onions, cereals, pumpkins, courgettes, brassicas are all grown in colossal amounts. On Sunday morning we were driving along and rounding a bend it suddenly looked as if we'd had a very late snowfall and sitting in the car you could barely see the wheelings of bare soil between the plantings and white fleece.
The foggy and grey early morning plus the glowing layers of fleece made it look like a winter film set in the middle of May, a field turned into a snowfield.
Our guess is that the fleece is keeping the ground warm and helping what we suspect are courgette seedlings to become established and speed their growth. The fleece will also keep the permanently hungry pigeons, crows and rooks off the young and tender plants too.
Just think how many courgettes are going to be cropped off that field.
I had a little shock when I read the post title. All's warm.
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ReplyDeleteAlan, A case of the eye fooling the brain! I almost skidded to a stop when I saw all the white but at least it wasn't April Fool's Day. Occasionally the fleece can be pale blue then you think a new lake has been excavated. Best wishes, John
The plants grow through the fleece. Have'nt ssen the bog door blue fields for a while.
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ReplyDeleteBB, They go along and cut holes in the fleece when they reach a certain size. What a backbreaking job that must be.
Post Brexit we'll see who can stoop low enough to do it.
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