Field Sampling - Day Two

While I was washing out the roots, Nico and Naveed were in the field collecting soil cores. To do this the first thing they did was cut off the top of the plant they wanted to sample.

Then they positioned an auger containing an aluminium sampler over the top of the plant.

Next they used a large hammer to push the auger into the ground.

Finally, they removed the aluminium sampler from the auger and put a red lid on the top and the bottom to stop it moving around.

They did this many times all over the field and by the end of the day had collected lots of samples.