The restart of Spring

17.04.12

March and April are two months of restart with the vegetative recovery of the plants and the blossoming of the flowers.
March was an unusual month: very scarce, to say nothing, the rainfall that instead arrived in April.
The night-day temperature changes have been significant and the stress that the plants have suffered is significant. All crops are generally at least ten days behind in development compared to a more usual seasonal trend.
The lack of rainfall has caused a significant slowdown in the development of plants such as leeks, which usually “burst” with sap at this time... or late cabbages and caps that in other years quickly become ready for delivery after having been in the field for long months.
Added to this is the work of territorial planners who, in order to allow the construction of areas previously intended for the countryside, keep all the surrounding canals dry, essentially preventing irrigation to rescue thirsty plants.
In recent times we have been witnessing a change in our distribution channels, a change that is sometimes almost incredible: products such as pumpkin, naturally “poor” even if “nutritionally rich”, since they require a greater commitment on the part of those who cook than a salad or zucchini, are “abandoned”, so much so as to put in difficulty some companies that have produced it for years and have invested in conservation (remember that pumpkins are harvested in September and kept in dry environments and at temperatures around 8/9°C even until the end of April).
Let's hope that there will really be a restart and that the blossoming of flowers will be a good wish again this year!

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