Planting Lavender

The long awaited moment of planting lavender arrived. With temperatures between 13C in the morning and rising fast to 39C, working against the clock to give the plants more chance to survive the transplant it was one tough job.
The first day we lost a field worker, luckily not a good one (the photographer). Got him a water/power management job and replaced him with much better Moses (no, he didn’t part our water).
During the three days, what it took us to have the job done, we used over 100.000 liters of water for irrigation and this couldn’t have been possible without the new, strong borehole. The first few weeks are critical for the plants to survive so in summer time we'll use 20.000 liters water per day.
Thank you team! Thelma,Tate Penda, Meme Penda, Willbard, Andreas and Moses (no, he didn’t make water from a rock in the desert).
Once the plants were in the ground we applied organic fertilizers through the drip irrigation system.
 Rain will be a great assistance so let’s hope we’ll have a good rainy season.

3000 seedlings in a box:

The hole makers:

Seedling: