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Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing
- From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:12:56 -0400
On Jun 10, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Pat Meadows wrote:
(However, I can believe it's easier to deal with too much rain than too
little.)
There's an old saying around here (I expect not applicable to the dryest climates);
A dry year will scare you.
But a wet year will starve you.
If -- a big if -- you have irrigation water, you can at least do something about the dry. (My irrigation supply runs out in August of a really dry year, though; sometimes sooner, if the previous year was dry too). But you can't do anything about crops underwater, or clouds that won't lift.
I will say that my particular nerves find too wet easier to deal with than extremely too dry -- at least in too wet the weeds are growing, so something's happy. When it's really dry, everything starts gasping.
Here we're having moderately dry, most places -- a good rain a few days ago helped a good deal in an otherwise dry late spring, following on a wet year --
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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[Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing,
tonitime, 06/08/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing, Little Joe, 06/08/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 06/08/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing, Pat Meadows, 06/08/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing, Lucy Goodman, 06/08/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing, Rose Hill Plantation, 06/08/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 06/10/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing,
Pat Meadows, 06/10/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing, road's end farm, 06/10/2007
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[Market-farming] Too wet?,
Beth Spaugh, 06/11/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Too wet?,
Pat Meadows, 06/11/2007
- [Market-farming] Too wet? What's that?, Errol Castens, 06/11/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Too wet?,
Pat Meadows, 06/11/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] today's weather/storm brewing,
Pat Meadows, 06/10/2007
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