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not a cloudy day. Sometimes you just hit it right. This year there wasn’t enough sun.” There were also days when smoke from the wildfires turned the sky cloudy, resulting in no growth. “At times I wasn’t sure if it was rotten, dead or just stopped growing; and then the sun came out. Crews can’t quantify the impact the smoke had overall and to what extent it impeded growth. Not having very much rain meant he had to buy city water and had to make adjustments to the ph. level to compensate as it is treated for lime. While there are
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