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Carl (carma48) posted an update Wednesday, Jun 28, 2023, 10:25am EDT, 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Shelly: We haven't really had much smoke from the Canadian wildfires here, but when we have it's been from the Quebec fires. Just a faint hint of smoke a couple times. Smoke from the Nova Scotia fires pretty much blows away from us, towards the east.
Our biggest problem here as been WAY too much rain. It has rained 22 of the last 28 days! Our tomatoes & beans seem to be holding their own. Lettuce, squash & peppers are way behind normal growth & we've lost about a quarter of our pepper plants. Many crops in the area are not in good shape. Strawberries are very limited this year. Only small quantities available & they're going to go by quickly. About 50% of the strawberry crop have rotted or molded. We look forward every years to fresh, local peas which are due any day now, but I hear there's not going to be many of those either. Farmers are having a very rough year so far.