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The Peasant; Gardens
from Signpost June 2021
by drjvale
Times they are a-changing
near drought. Maize has to be changed the most. The Climate change is a very real thing, despite recent ground at the moment is still cold and every day that pronouncements by the last president of the US. we delay planting brings us nearer to the midHow much of it is due to the human race and how summer equinox and the corresponding shortening much would have occurred naturally is open to days thereafter and it will not be sufficiently grown debate, but one thing is undeniable, the climate is in time for harvest. You will get a crop, but it will changing. have to be managed in a different way.
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The year seems to get later and later. I can I personally think it will be a very interesting time remember in my youth that Christmas was usually and a lot of people will have to change their way or cold, sometimes snowy and always wet, but now go out of business very soon. I wish I were just at the everything is at least a month later. This will need a start of my farming days instead of at the end of lot of change of attitudes from people. Winter corn them. Good luck to those persevering. We shall have has to be planted much later than before. Crops to be less dependent on the weather and more on our planted in September and early October are now too own feelings. ‘The best boot belongs to the boss’ and forward for the cold Spring and Spring crops are a job to establish because of the cold, dry conditions. that will prove to become more and more true as time goes on. The days as we call them will be goneMiddlewick House Open Garden www.middlewickhouseopengarden.comFor livestock farmers, an early turnout is not possible because instead of a calendar, a clock and experience because the frosty conditions mean the grass is not will be more useful. growing and also it will cut down the amount Whether ‘the boot’ should be on a boss’s foot or available for sileage and thus the next winter ’s applied to those who do the work is open to amount of fodder is depleted. question!
We shall have to have a complete rethink and all Ben Barton modern teaching will have to be changed. Plant breeders will have to develop a strain of plants that Ben, as you see, was in philosophical mood when I is more resistant to cold weather and long periods of took this dictation but still very alive to the news, and climate, around us.