HMC Farms Update 3/19/2010

The buds are blossoming and here at HMC Farms we are slowly shifting from winter to spring. The winter is the time our trees rest and recoup for the upcoming tree fruit season. The three things in the winter that greatly affect the outcome of our summer crop are; chill hours, rainfall, and bloom timing.
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March 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Tree Fruit and Table Grape Update | Comments are closed

HMC Farms Update 1/26/10

When it rains it pours, and it definitely poured in the Valley.  For seven straight days the forecast was rain with little chance of anything else.  Between Monday and Friday of last week HMC received 2.53 inches of rain. 
Today the current rainfall total: 6.57” for year-to-date as of January 26th 2009 [...]

January 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Tree Fruit and Table Grape Update | Comments are closed