After weeks spent scanning the sky hoping for a ray of sunshine, something finally seems to have changed. In lighter soils, someone has managed to do some small work to begin to dispose of some of the accumulated water. Some “luckier” producers have managed to take advantage of areas where it rained less to move the crops planned for that period, even if destined for other land (always in compliance with the rotation) and yet forcing cycles of rotations set up to maintain constant attention to the protection of organic matter. Many, on the other hand, have had to throw away thousands of seedlings ready for transplantation because they remained too long in the honeycomb containers with which they came from the production nurseries. In other cases, seedlings have been placed on the ground that seemed not too compromised by the long stay in the polystyrene containers, but which, after the transplant, have been slow to emit new roots and will consequently be slow to mature. All the programming decided in winter was disrupted by bad weather. Field crops are suffering the consequences of adverse weather and, in any case, all the water accumulated in the soil, during the normal evaporation process, on the one hand will keep the soil cold (with a consequent delay in maturation) and on the other hand it will maintain a constant microclimate at the level of the plants that are extremely humid (unfortunately favorable to attacks by fungal and bacterial plant diseases). Think that in some areas there are still water stagnations (real lagoons to tell the truth...) in the headlands and on the edges of the fields. Conventionally, this will not be a problem, a few more treatments will suffice, but this is not the case for us! But let's get to some less negative news... The asparagus from Bozza and Bozzolan are coming (among other things this year you will notice much less white asparagus due to the fact that the producers were unable to cover them in normal times), the spring onions from Bozza, the lettuce from Moretto and the peas from Ca' Solare... We would have liked this list to be longer, unfortunately it's not like that...
