Nova Scotia pumpkin farmer Danny Dill said the spring planting season was extremely dry. A spell of hot weather and then nearly two weeks of historic wildfires in late May and early June left behind more than 235 square kilometres of scorched ground.But starting in June, heavy rains poured in, which made his farm resemble a waterbed and kept the bees away. When the pumpkin flowers bloomed across his patch, he said, there were fewer bees than usual to pollinate them.
"We've gone through everything in the last five years, whether it's been droughts or hurricanes," he said. "But this year really, really took its toll on us." Although her farm is north of the 56th parallel, she said she was hit with similar weather vagaries as most of the other farmers in Canada."Eventually it did rain but not till July and then it never stopped raining," she said. "So we got 25 inches of water in a month, which is pretty much our annual precipitation. The things on the high ground died of drought and the things in the low ground, which were doing splendidly, died drowning. The middle ground was what was left.
Not all pumpkin farmers suffered this season, however. Roy Phillips, owner of the Phillips' Family Farm, in northwest London, said he's having a crop "maybe even a little bit better than normal."
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