Finally...Rain

So The Amazing Weedless Garden will, in a week or so, will go down this year's garden memory-hole. Good riddance. I can say that today, because we've gotten rain the past two days, and, so far, what we have is mud between the rows.

A week from now, we'll have...Weeds Gone Wild!




In the meantime, no hose-dragging.

Also, very happy watermelons....


The sun is out today. More rain would be good, of course, but we'll take it an inch at a time (we've had about 1.5). Houston had 12 inches in the past few days, and we DON'T WANT THAT!
We have vivid memories of the dreaded Remnants of Allison. So I've watched the low pressure over texas as it moves slowly in this direction, taking note that it hasn't developed into a tropical system which, moving slowly, can dump a garden-killing amount of rain. During that June of whatever year it was ( I think maybe 2001) the 'remnants' of that tropical depression brought us 22" of rain in three days. There were ducks swimming in the front yard (from next door) and we sadly had to rip 250 tomato plants and about that many pepper plants out of the ground and pile them on a trash heap. And they had been loaded with green tomatos and immature bell peppers. The rain just drowned them. Killed the plants in a matter of days.

So, what to do? No rain, too much rain, you take what you get. There's no such thing as perfect garden weather. You put food up in the freezer and in jars and dry the herbs. At least here, if something happens to your Spring garden, there's always the Fall garden, which is never far away. Ditto for Fall.

For now, I'll just kick back and wait for the water in my 'plastic garden shoes' to evaporate.