What month is it Anyway?

June-like hot in late March; cold front in late May (nights in the 40s) and no rain, no rain, no rain. So we've been watering non-stop...two kinds of sprinklers, two kinds of drip hoses and flooding the field with the pond water. Distressing, but if we had a good thunderstorm things would be very raggedy out there, so you just don't know what to wish for.

And the bell peppers have TERRIBLE aphid problems and Will has been doing everything there is to be done, but the problem is not solved - we shall see. And the basil on one side of the field is dying - some kind of bacterial rot thing. And the first planting of cucumbers, after two weeks of good production - well, those are dying too. But it's strange - they're dying on the tops. who knows. Every year there are some things that fail - but it's still heartbreaking. All is not bad, though,. The garden as a whole looks pretty fabulous. You have to be very intimate with the garden to see the problems and worry about them. There is another planting of cucumbers and of basil, both of which look great so we'll cross our fingers on both. Maybe even plant an extra row of bell peppers, even though they won't be our own seedlings. Here are some random garden photos to keep you going...just this and that from here and there.