Now that you have seen how the lettuce business works, I can also show you an other job what we have been doing and that is building new tables.
The parts were already laying around the property for 7 years and there has been no time to put up the last 3 tables. So there we are, just arrange a couple of "grey" (I'm pretty red at the moment) nomads, put them to work and the job's done, everybody happy!
David had to do the welding job as Fred didn't learn to weld before.
Nice job Farmer!
Then the channels had to be cleaned...
when it was windy, and I can tell you it's often on this Island, it was hard to handle these long channels...
ready to use.....
After putting the tubes level and measuring how to divide the channels, they can be screwed on to the tubes...
nice and straight....
I'm digging a trench for the water hose which has to be connected to the main water pipe, the green one you see behind me, to go through to the table....
pfff finished digging....
After digging and putting the hose into the trench, David connected the hose to the main pipe were the water floats through and Fred is connecting the little pipes were the water goes into the channels....
seedlings are waiting to be planted.....
YES!! Table finished, lets start planting....
David happy to take a picture of we being proud haha!!
In the mean time Fred learnt how to weld but not good enough to do the last table so here he is only practising......David had to finish it properly.
but that doesn't matter as now he can make some small projects, I'll show you later...
The first two tables are planted and growing pretty good!
The last table is finished and planted. Here you can see the pipes were the water goes through into the drain, from the drain it goes to through a filter into a tank and back to the channels...
As you know its already a few months we are here on the Island and we still like it.
Today we have harvested our first made table and the lettuce was just BEAUTIFUL, doesn't had anything to do with us building that table of course haha! But still, we are allowed to be a bit proud aren't we??
See ya next time!
OEPS wait, I nearly again forgot to tell you something;
The seeds for the lettuce come from, yes!! The Netherlands!
Isn't that a coincidence?
Cheers!
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