The soil at Goonown Growers is a clay loam so the limited rain over the past month has turned the top layer into a solid crust which cracks. This makes it hard to harvest crops like these leeks without damaging the base, but also cultivate the soil using the hand tools we rely on. We have reprioritised setting up irrigation systems as a result of this dry spring to ensure crop are well watered going into summer, reducing the likelihood of crops going to seed earlier or low yields due to plant stress.

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