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Although the area has received ample rain from a string of recent storms, the Virginia Drought Monitoring Task Force reported that lower* than-normal ground water is “still cause for some concern as the growing season progresses.”
“My sunflowers wasted away last summer because we were concerned about water. Rather than to use it on the flowers, we let them go,” said Mrs. Blubaugh. “I rally anticipated another hot, dry summer, and now my plants have a chance.”
“We have to all think about this,” said Helen Williams. “If you live on a well and have a drought summer, you think about it.
“My rain water will be for the gardens, but it wouldn't do anything for my 55 acres," she said.
In 2007, the northern Piedmont received little over half of its normal rainfall totals, suffering through 12
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