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he was forced “to shut-down for a few hours” several times due to lack of pressure.
“It’s never gone dry before,” he said, adding while he doesn’t feel he is using more water this year, the water supply has diminished.
“We are doing pretty good up this way,” he said of his home and farm area in Old Hollow.
“We are not totally scorched out like some places,” he said, adding his part of Sperryville has benefitted from several rainshowers that did not hit other areas of Rappahannock.
Orchardist Jerry Jenkins in Woodville feels he has “gotten enough rain to get by on” this summer though hot days kept his workers from the peach harvest several afternoons, his apples are “very good size.”
With 15 to 18 varieties, Mr. Jenkins’ orchard plans to have apples until Christmas.
“There are apples and they are sweet,” said agriculture Extension agent Tommy Williams. He said heat has helped to make apples of “high quality. They may be a little smaller, though in some areas they are a little larger, but they are sweet.”
Apples—whether pick-your-own or picked—can be found throughout the county. Apple orchards like Foster’s in Flint Hill, Streapy’s in Huntly, Lee’s in Washington, Jenkins’ in Woodville and Sharp’s in Sperryville (besides the above-mentioned) offer wide variety.
Mr. Williams said a crop of this caliber has not been measured in three or four years.
“The apples are so thick, it pulled some of drawf apple trees right over,” Mr. Call said.
While the hot, dry weather has produced apples with a sweet taste, the same weather has affected other crops with a more negative impact.
Muskrat Haven Farms’ huge jack-o-lantem pumpkins, which usually weigh between 80 and 90 pounds, tip the scales at only 40-50 pounds this year.
“You can see the drought line in Huntly,” said Mr. Williams, explaining some areas, such Flint Hill, Amissville and parts of Sperryville and Washington, are very dry, while those south towards Boston and Madison County greener.
There are two distinct cornfields on either side of 522 in Huntly, said Mr. Williams. One field of com has taller, greener, healthier com while on the opposite side of the road the crop is smaller and not as healthy.
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