we really needed rain in the worst way - and had flooded the field with the pond, trying to give the corn and beans enough water as they ripen, and trying to keep everything else from withering in the heat...but the garden was in good shape, and had reached and was surpassing that 'Disney' moment, when everything is orderly and all is beautiful...and right after the pumping of the pond was finished, of course we get a whopper of a storm yesterday...
Like everything else about gardening, there are many ways to look at this; there are trees and beds and many things (including the pond) that needed this rain. But a big rain can be brutal.
The sun will pull all of this skyward - to a point. Let's be honest - everything's a mess! But, you can also say that now we are released from the pressure of maintaining the absolutely perfect-looking garden! And Will thinks maybe he can stand the corn back up - not the crop that was full of ears and almost ready...and we'll be able to harvest that in a few days; but maybe the second planting...we shall see. I cut the glads and just refuse to look at the herbs that are flat...they'll straighten out to a degree. messy messy messy. But this morning was surprisingly cool and nice, and I cut all of the herbs we'll need for the Friday evening crew. Don't know how we're going to get out there and pick this evening. Lots of things are already harvested for the week. But the peppers (all kinds) and eggplant and even the yellow beans...we'll figure it out.
these pictures (specially the tomato one) make me SICK....my tomato plants have just been in the ground for three weeks, and the beans----well they just sprouted out of the soil. My garden won't look anything close to this one until late august early september.
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