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  • 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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