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Old 19-07-2007, 04:58 PM posted to rec.gardens,rec.gardens.edible
William Wagner[_2_] William Wagner[_2_] is offline
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rachael simpson wrote:

just to show you how dry it is around here...........

the local paper did an article on the corn crops this summer:

http://clintonnc.com/articles/2007/0...topstory95.txt


Terrible!

We had a dry summer nothing like what you describe. So the following
growing season we mulched real heavy an as it happened we had a very wet
season. You can put it on but we can't take it off. This a few years
back about ~ 5.

Anyway

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

Hoping for moderation in some things.

Bill

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