5 February
I helped with the carrot and beetroot harvest samples today. It was very much the same as the last time.
The only difference is that I got to use the leaf area machine to measure the
total area of the carrot leaves for each sub-sample. Its a clever machine that
uses mirrors and electronics to measure each leaf. All i had to do was feed
each leaf into the rollers with the stalk first, making sure the leaf moved and
didn’t stop. Once the leaves had passed through the machine I recorded the
total area, and put the leaf matter into a paper bag ready to go in the oven to
be dried. Quite a simple task really!
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| The carrots are weighed |
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| Once the roots are cut off the total leaf area is measured |
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| The leaves go in... |
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The leaves come out...
The leaf matter is dried in huge ovens
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