Feast or Famine
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12 years ago
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Full StoryOr in this case, floods or drought. This has been a very trying spring, to completely understate the situation. For weeks, the only way I could get the garden in shape to plant was to cover it with plastic and wait for two dry days so I could till it, cover it for a few days while the rains returned, then remove the plastic, till and plant it. Frustrating, to be sure.
So what happens? I finally get a piece of decent ground I can use, it finally dries out enough so it can be plowed and tilled. Rain is forecast for Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, so I spent Thursday at least getting some tomatoes planted.
Surprise, surprise - all the forecasts for rain were 100 percent wrong - make that 99.98 percent. We had 15 raindrops on Saturday and four yesterday. Now they are saying no rain until at least Thursday but temps in the low to mid 90s.
I have not been over to see how my transplants are doing, hopefully they are surviving. I tried to get their roots into the moist soil - hopefully I was successful.
Of course, there are a couple of bright spots! All that grass that was plowed and then tilled is having a hard time surviving, for one. If the plants survive - maybe a big if - they will have very good roots for later this summer!
Mike
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