You don't need to be a weatherman to look out and see the weather. This past week has brought us rain, rain and more rain. While it is true that water is an essential component to growing anything, too much water creates a plethora of problems pretty quickly. The persistently cool nighttime temperatures and cloudy skies have severely slowed the growth of our heat loving crops. It has looked as though we were right on the verge of zucchini and summer squash for days, but the lack of sunny weather has kept the squash too small to harvest, shivering on the vine. We are fortunate that for the most part, all of our fields drain well, but the onslaught of heavy rain has proven too much, even for our sandy fields. More than once this week, we have woken to find ponds forming in our fields, the water cresting over our raised beds lapping at the feet of our cucumbers and submerging our newly germinated late summer carrots and beets.
