How to find buried sprinklers.

We cut branches from tea trees around sprinklers today.

Sprinklers supposed to go up by the water pressure, but on rare occasions it fail because of a tea tree.The sprinkler caught on a tea tree and it can't go up.

In contrary,if a sprinkler isn't enough to be pushed, cutting machine would hurt it.In order to solve this problem, we flatly cut tea trees around the sprinklers so that we can find the sprinklers.

Although the sprinklers are lined at regular intervals of about fourteen steps, we are sometimes forced to crawl on tea field or push aside tea tree branches to find sprinklers and it is frustrating that we can't find them.Besides,when we push aside tea tree branches, we had to work carefully in order not to damage tea trees.

So we don't need to feel frustration any more.

Our work has been apparently improved.

This picture is"YUTAKAMIDORI" tea variety. Its leaf is round in shape.

This variety fills half of Iwamotoen's tea field.

The first tea picking here starts from this "YUTAKAMIDORI".