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  • From: Harvey Ussery <boxwood@nelsoncable.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Future Is Drying Up
  • Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:47:03 -0400


I heard about the great drought of 2007, and my half acre vegetable garden did just fine with minimal watering. I know another farmer who doesn't have any watering capability at all! At best he hand waters new seedlings for a few days and that's it. He did fine. It was a bit droughty in August, but all that meant was our jalapeno peppers were hot as hell!

Rob

Rob, I've had the same experience here in northern Virginia: I've heard complaints much of the season about the severity of the drought, and they always surprised me a bit, since my garden did pretty well (indeed, best-ever for some crops--cabbages, peppers). I have to conclude that my high organic matter content (8.4% last time I did a soil test) is making a big difference when the rain doesn't fall.

And oh yeah, I noticed the same thing with my habaneros as the soil got drier at the end of the season: They got so hot they were scary!

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Va
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