July 2017: Repairing the damages from the flood & cleaning the flowers

In the middle of the month of June 2017 a sudden "bomba d'acqua" (i.e. "water bomb) fell down -in the real sense - just on few villages of the zone: Magliano Alfieri, Castagnito and Govone, flooding our cultivation.
To be sincere, the long roots of the iris together with the foil held the fields quite good, even though a lot of land was carried away.
To make things worse, after the flood came "Caronte", i.e. the nickname given to the out-of-average heat that shocked fields and persons with temperatures  over 35° C.

The results were that the land became like stone, with little canyons running under the foils. The farmers of the zone that came to see it were a little bit worried how we could fix all. 
Well, it's very easy: will, force, work, labour and again will force, work etc. untill all it's ok.

Top: after removing the foil, this was the situation: little hard canyons!
Bottom: with hard work of hand the ground was all hoed by hand

After thal the foil was positioned as it was

Picture bottom: these are the fields with all the iris totally cleaned by hand. Hard work, but worthy!