Rice Planting Time    page 2             For page 1, click here

 

 

Even with modern equipment, there's still plenty of work to do.  It takes quite a while to work through one field fully,  and farmers will usually have more than one field.  The fields tend to be in different locations, not all in the same place.

 

 

 

When the fields are flooded like this, the frogs come out to play!  It gets real noisy, especially at night.  The children like to catch the frogs and play with them, but they are still hard to spot.  Soon the rainy season will start, and the frogs will multiply dramatically.  Then there will be lots of tadpoles and frogs all over the place!

 

 

 

 

Rice is not the only thing that requires work.  It is time for harvesting lettuce and celery and other early vegetables, almost time for pruning apples and pears, and the wheat that was planted in the autumn is getting brown.