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  • From: Vern and Amy <vaspencer AT sisna.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] First frost date--He showed up....
  • Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:32:01 -0700

Mike,
Sorry to hear it. I slept outside with the kids and woke up with the coyotes howling and the littlest one saying she was going in because she was "getting really scared." I was hungry, so had a sandwich and read Laura Ingalls Wilder's /Farmer Boy/ about how they saved the corn on July 4 when it froze by pouring water on each plant before the sun came up. They only lost 1/4 acre out of 3 acres because they couldn't water it all. I hope you had enough covered. We have covered 2/3 acre of potatoes with tarps and plastic because it needed more time. This year's needs more time because of planting at least a month late due to wet fields, but I can't cover 2.5 acres, so I keep praying and this weekend should be warmer than I thought. We have already had a couple nips, but I think the air must have picked up enough heat coming down across the dry garden that it spared the spuds.

Vern




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