Salad plantation
Planting on plastic foil weighed down with clods of clay, crates of salad seedlings, at the bottom of the image, recently planted seedlings.
Chateaurenard, Vaucluse, France, late March.
"Each year we produce one hundred million transplantable vegetables (25 per cent of the Swiss market) from seeds originating from around the world: Japan, the United States, France, Italy and above all Holland."
Daniel Marchand, agronomic engineer, Lonay, Vaud canton, Switzerland
in " Planting patterns ", p. 45