Still Raining

Well, more rain this week, we would have had about 125mm in the last 20 days or so, to wet to plant at present. Planter ready to go, I have decided to plant on a Double skip configuration.
Our planter has an effective planting width of 9m with 12 rows at 750mm spacings. So if we double skip on these spacings we really only have a gap between the rows at 750mm and at 2.25m which is somewhere between single and double on 1m rows.
I have done this because once we get into June the rain will stop in 95% of years and so we will be grain filling from subsoil. What they call the short rains should start in late Oct/Nov and I am contemplating planting the other 600 hectares on the first short rains (Oct/Nov) as we will be carrying a decent amount of subsoil moisture forward from now.
Annie went to a Dawn service for ANZAC day help in Nairobi.
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