Holiday Trees, Pumpkins Could Show Effects of Summer Drought
posted 5:54 am Mon October 15, 2007 - WASHINGTON
Christmas trees this holiday season could be telling a story of the recent hot, dry summer. Plus the drought conditions seem to have scared the pumpkins right off the vine. Some growers are saying that trees this year aren't dying, but may not fill out as much as they would in a normal year.
Wade Butler is from Butler's Orchard in Germantown. He says it hasn't been an aggressive growing year for Christmas trees.
He says that even trees that look nice will lose their needles earlier than usual because of the lack of moisture.
So he advises people to wait a little longer before cutting down trees, so they have a chance to get some moisture from upcoming rains.
Meanwhile, pumpkins like dry weather at the end of their growing season but the overall lack of rain seems to have caused a drop in supply.
Area farmers say the dry weather has resulted in much smaller crops.
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Information from: WTOP-FM
Wade Butler is from Butler's Orchard in Germantown. He says it hasn't been an aggressive growing year for Christmas trees.
He says that even trees that look nice will lose their needles earlier than usual because of the lack of moisture. So he advises people to wait a little longer before cutting down trees, so they have a chance to get some moisture from upcoming rains.
Meanwhile, pumpkins like dry weather at the end of their growing season but the overall lack of rain seems to have caused a drop in supply.
Area farmers say the dry weather has resulted in much smaller crops.
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Information from: WTOP-FM
Latest Comment on Holiday Trees, Pumpkins Could Show Effects of Summer Drought
Prettyboy
10:24 pm on 10/14/07
Isn't that the way it always is? Come on.. I know it was a rough season but my first experience with this sort of scam was when we had problems with the weather and the coffee sky rocketed. From that it was the oranges and the high cost forecasted with orange juice. Now with all that on the table once the crisis is over does the coffee or juice go back down to reasonable prices? Hell no. It doesn't go down after it goes up. No matter what it is! It remains that price.. or even higher. What a scam this world is to us. Just think on what I wrote here. As my dad would say.."put that in your pipe and smoke it!"
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