{"id":10462,"date":"2012-08-10T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2012-08-10T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:12:59","slug":"down-on-the-farm-so-what-have-you-been-doing-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2012\/08\/down-on-the-farm-so-what-have-you-been-doing-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Down on the Farm: So\u2026. What Have You Been Doing This Summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(By Janice Stevens, WSUF) Have you found a way to remain cool and hydrated? \u00a0That has been our challenge this summer so far. \u00a0 Our heavy clay soil has worked in our favor by holding on to any\u00a0minuscule\u00a0drop of water that falls and keeping the root zone somewhat less parched. \u00a0The boxes that we plant in have been very difficult to keep moist and the hoop house, which gets no rain at all, has had a very high evaporation rate. \u00a0 We have been watering every day\u2026.for hours\u2026.every day\u2026.just watering, nothing else\u2026.for hours\u2026.every day. \u00a0It\u2019s good to live beside a large lake, because rain water collection isn\u2019t effective when there is no rain. \u00a0I am very thankful for the hay and straw donated, because those beds without mulch were\u2026.well\u2026.dry. \u00a0(Did I mention that we have been watering daily??)\u00a0 How wonderful was that rain we got on Sunday, the first real rain for weeks.<\/p>\n

The beautiful thing is that we have succeeded so far in keeping most of the plants alive, growing, and producing. \u00a0Not the \u00a0greens, but sweet and lovely beets, prolific eggplant, gorgeous peppers and tomatoes. \u00a0Cucumbers died \u2013 all of \u00a0\u2019em \u2013 pole beans struggled, but finally overcame, bush beans didn\u2019t do very well, but the chard has kept plugging away.<\/p>\n

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