No More Weather Whining

Although, I'm beginning to think that complaining publicly about the lack of rain seems to bring on the rain...we've had about 4 inches in the past three days. Enough to calm the hysteria about the drought, and roll up the hoses for a while. WIll spent yesterday afternoon picking produce and dodging rain storms, packing an order for Our Daily Bread, a small health food store in Baton Rouge. It will take a day or two for the garden to dry out. I think it will rain today and maybe tonight, and then we'll decide what to pull up or plow under. I'm glad we got the tomato plants out of the field before the rain. They get pretty nasty once they are in decline. The last of the corn is ready for sale, and the blackbirds will miss their daily feast, I'm sure. But Will has been laying out sunflower heads for them on a picnic table out by the garden. I missed the biggest storm while I was away yesterday, and went out to survey the damage in the evening. Lots of herbs and flowers blown over. But they tend to stand back up once the sun pulls them off the ground. The annuals will never look perky and new again, but they've still got lots of life left. I'll take some post-rain pictures after I get out there again this evening. It will be one of those times when you survey quickly, then pick up a hoe and get to work. After a big weather event, it's clean up time in the garden. Also, we're in that mid-summer never-land, turning over the spent vegetables. re-planting beans and cover-cropping.