By Lindsey Cooke
PETERBOROUGH- Near record amounts of rain over the last few months have made it harder for local farmers to try and grow certain crops.
For John Fraser, it has been a struggle to grow things like orcas, beans, flowers and beets this year.“I can’t even get my grapes in, I put them in a couple weeks ago but it has just been too wet to even plow” he said.
Fraser along with other local farmers at the downtown farmers market have said that crops such as beans and corn have been a challenge to grow. “We don’t put all of our eggs in one basket, certain things are going to suffer but that is farming. Not everything is going to work out” said Sherry Patterson. She owns Chick-a-biddy acres located in Trent Hills.
Patterson explained that beans don’t grow so well in wet and cold conditions, which is why they haven’t turned up yet for her.
Barb Fisher is the owner of Fisher Farms in Janetville and she agreed that the rain has not made it easy for planting. “The fields have been too muddy to work, you just get stuck out there” said Fisher. Although Fisher said it has been tough, it doesn’t mean that some of these crops won’t come up. “I’m not saying nothing has turned up, it’s just going to take longer. But a day or two of sunshine makes so much difference” she explained.
Thursday’s forecast is for sunny dry weather but Friday is predicted to be wet.
