Daffodils will be picked in March on the Saanich Peninsula — it’s just unclear exactly when.
With traces of snow still visible between the rows, millions of ready-to-bloom flowers still have frozen stems, meaning they will stay in the ground for the time being while Peninsula farmers hope for warmth.
Then the cold hit, and the snow followed. “We can’t harvest them when they’re frozen and the ground is still frozen,” he said. “It’s not a complete disaster, but there is loss we will be challenged to recover from,” Vantreight said. “But we won’t have a sense of that until it thaws.”“When it starts to come warmer — and it is expected to do that pretty sharply — we will need as much help as possible in the field,” he said, adding the farm has advertised all over the region for pickers who want to make quick cash.
“[Farming now] is all reactionary and our relationships with customers have to be fluid and they have to be able to be pliable. “We still have seasonal ups and downs we plan for, but we never know if a season will be extended or shortened or if there will be a cold snap … these are things we have no control over,” he said. “You have to be an eternal optimist with nerves of steel.”
Volpe said with that decrease comes increased variation in the stream of air currents, which leaves the jet stream inconsistent and unpredictable.
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