Seasonal Preparation at the Farm
The furrows between the earth walls of the asparagus farm are loosened to promote rapid drying.
This is how the asparagus field looks like after the compact ground has been loosened up.
The asparagus plants are the exposed by help of a shovel.
This is an exposed asparagus plant.
Place the shovels erect and at the center of the asparagus row to allow the earth wall to be put on top of the plants’ crowns.
An asparagus ribbing plow helps carry out this work.
The wooden stick mounted on the tractor is used to aim at the wooden shovel handle.
At the same time, the ribbing plow trailed by the tractor digs the furrows into the field and piles up the loose soil.
A milling machine mounted at the front of the tractor is additionally loosening the soil.
The ridge mounder trailed by the tractor gives the earth ridge of the asparagus field its distinctive look.
These pictures show the loosening of the soil at the front end, while the earth ridge is being mounted at the back of the tractor. The earth-walled landscape is now complete and waiting for the sun…