Sprigs are going down!

There they are! That is a pile of Latitude 36 sprigs that will cover about 6 acres. The truck from South Carolina will drop one load every morning until we finish. About 16 loads is what we are shooting for. The sprigs are carried in small dump trucks out to each individual site.

The sprigs are surprisingly green but that won't last long as they go through a few days of shock before they start to grow again.  Any areas that are tough to get the big planter in are hand sprigged.

Hand sprigging seems to be a fine art!

The hand sprig areas are cut in with a smaller tractor with disks. The sprigs are cut about 1 to 3 inches deep and then rolled over.

It is nice to see some more green grass covering the Manakin. We are probably a month away from getting a mower out so don't get too excited yet.

There is the big planter. On even terrain and in straight lines, this how the bulk of the sprigs will go out.

We have been very lucky to get missed with most of the rain over the weekend. We would like to continue controlling the water from here on out!