Sun, squashes and… circus tricks?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tgToLv-RaU
A glorious sunny day for Cropshare again, this time round our volunteers were working on their sun tans (or burns in my case) and planting out around 2500 squash plants, of different varieties- Harlequin, Harrier, Hunter… and courgettes too.

Harlequin squash plants

Squash plants loaded onto planting machine

Smaller plants were planted out on the planting machine, and others by hand either into bare soil or through mypex- a plastic “reusable mulch”, as explained by a Cropshare member in the video.

Planting squashes into the plastic mypex mulch

Planted with care

Sky the dog comes to help

Watering in squashes

Serious about farming

We all enjoyed another great lunch in the sun, and had time for more squash planting, hoeing of swiss chard and even circus acrobatics in the afternoon session. Reminds me of the onion juggling tricks seen at last year’s harvest! Thanks everyone- see you next time!