Here are some photos I took yesterday as the farm site is finally set up for the first experiment to go ahead. There is a shade cloth overhead to keep the plants from getting sun scorch, and also a very nice irrigation system has just been installed. You can see the mist created by the irrigation, which keeps the leaves nice and susceptible to disease! The different cultivars and treatments in the experiment are randomised among each rack of plants.
In this picture you can see the shade cloth overhead and the complicated plumbing for the 6 zones of the structure so that I can program each zone (which are all colour coded!) to come on for a certain time separately!
This is a rain gauge, one of many sensors I have in the plot to record the conditions the plants are experiencing. the rain is funnelled into a small tipping bucket which holds a specific amount, each tip is recorded and the water drips out of the bottom of the bucket.
In this picture you can see the shade cloth overhead and the complicated plumbing for the 6 zones of the structure so that I can program each zone (which are all colour coded!) to come on for a certain time separately! 
This is a rain gauge, one of many sensors I have in the plot to record the conditions the plants are experiencing. the rain is funnelled into a small tipping bucket which holds a specific amount, each tip is recorded and the water drips out of the bottom of the bucket. 
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