We are now cultivating the greens planted along the new drip tape for the first time. It's not going too well. The tape is all curvy, which Steve has explained, making it very difficult, if not impossible, to keep the cultivator tines away from the tape.
We normally cultivate each side of the rows with a mini-tiller, followed by another person with a wheel hoe. It's a good system, but we're gonna have to find a way to keep that drip tape in place - in a straight line. Maybe bury it shallow REAL close to the row, so the cultivator operator knows exactly where it is at all times.
We're also going to have to be much more precise with the planter - use the row marker on the planter, run a string on the first row and keep it straight. I've never bothered with that - I thought is was just for looks!
If it would just RAIN, I wouldn't have to be fooling with any of this.
Jack