SEATTLE — A fifth-generation farmer in Washington says the drought has taken a toll on his normally bountiful pumpkin patch.
KING-TV reports that Dale Sherman’s 11-acre pumpkin patch on Whidbey Island, which produced 110 tons last year, was mostly weeds this fall.
Sherman told KING-TV that the best pumpkins grew in green and misshapen. Others are rotten.
Sherman says water is in short supply because he farms on an island. He doesn’t irrigate, but says the rainfall is usually enough to grow his crops.
