Boy, is it dry!

We still haven’t had any rain. It was supposed to “rain” yesterday, so I was out in the North Garden, finishing up tilling the strip I had to leave the day before because the sand flies were biting the heck out of me, especially the back of my neck at the hair line. Dark clouds came in but only several very small drops fell. I was sweating more than that! But I got it done, then planted 10 rows of Bear Island Chippewa flour corn by hand. Earlier, Will and I were out in the Wolf Garden. He was planting our hybrid sweet corn, Kristine, this year. So why would we plant a hybrid? Well, if I planted one of our wonderful open pollinated varieties of sweet corn, I wouldn’t want to eat it or can it. I would just let it dry for seed! That’s why we plant hybrid sweet corn, in a nutshell.

Today, we were out in the Wolf Garden, planting the first of our tomatoes. Will put the middle buster plow on the big Kubota and made rows. I followed him, laying out tomato plants and pounding in name stakes. Then he crawled down the row, tucking the plants in nicely. I felt sorry for him as he has a very sore knee. He was cutting firewood and a piece flew back and smacked him in the knee. Ouch!

I am sure tickled to see our first-planted beans and corn are coming up nicely, even though we can’t water easily out there and we have had no rain. I was praying and holding my breath for the last week. Whew! There is hope this year. — Jackie