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The sun is drying things out so we can get to work
After lots of rain, which turned our central and north gardens to clay mush, the sun has been out daily and things are starting to dry. It’s a good thing too, as our central garden is growing a red haze … Read more
We’re racing along as the weather maintains
Although some of our neighboring areas have had flash flooding, such as the 7 inches of rain our friend Dara had recently, washing out her quite long driveway, we only got a little over 2 inches in three days. So … Read more
Stuff is just popping up!
Due to our heat and strategic rains, our seeds have just been popping out of the ground. Our main garden, which was planted first, now has lusty beans, corn, carrots, potatoes, and of course tomatoes. I just went out to … Read more
We’re nearly finished planting
We worked hard to get all the various crops planted in all of our big gardens. Rain was forecast and as we all know, rain on newly planted seeds makes them spring up lustily. Well, so far, no rain but … Read more
Our new garden is now tilled and planted
On Tuesday Will took the Ford tractor out into our new sand garden (now the official name) and began to till. The very back and lower end were wet due to the inch of rain we got, but he wasn’t … Read more