The area here is always lush and green. Elder Jeppesen is awed by the farming enterprises we see as
we drive throughout the mission area.
We have been watching the fields on the intersection of Brant/Reservation
Road and Milestrip. The first year
was planted in cabbage but because the season was so dry, even with an overhead
sprinkler the cabbage was unable to grow as it should. The inside was too hard
so they simply plowed many acres of cabbage back into the ground. This year it was planted with
tomatoes. The effort was very
labor intensive, with plastic sheeting covering the mounds, a drip system with
fertilizer added to the water, and staked up so the tomatoes could be
supported. We were told these could
be picked green and shipped. They
grew to plants of all sizes. We
were totally amazed at how fast they grew once all the labor involved in
planting was completed.
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