After planting and planting while watching the weather forecast diligently several times a day, it finally rained. A whole half an inch! Boy, were we ever grateful! But the next day, the sun came out and it was in the 80s so, in the afternoon, I planted the leftover Bill Bean and Shady Bill tomatoes in the leftover furrow in the last tomato row. We have always run out of Bill Bean seeds. It seems everyone loves it and are amazed at how big they are, as well as super tasty. Last fall, I saved twice as many seeds as the year before, but a month ago, we ran out. This year, I started 15 Bill Bean plants and 10 Shady Bill (a cross between Blue Beauty and Bill Bean) and will be sure to save tons of seeds for Lynn and Jesse.
On Tuesday, our friend Dara came and spent the morning weeding and planting onion sets where the onion plants had died in the drought. We are so grateful for her help!
I planted lots of peppers yesterday, as more rain was in the forecast, possibly severe storms with hail. I prayed over every one, that we didn’t get the hail, but would get the rain. As I planted the last flat, I could hear thunder and a few drops of rain were coming down. I didn’t want to get hit by lightning, so I packed up the golf cart and headed home. I’d just gotten there when it started pouring rain. Will and I sat on the front porch, watching the rain pour off the roof. It was still nearly 90 degrees F, so, for a while, it was pretty humid. Then the rain cooled it off nicely. Ahhh, very nice!
This morning I went out to the greenhouse, thinking I’d better plant some bell peppers as well as hot peppers. Oh oh! Guess who forgot to plant King of the North or Early Red Bell? I’m sure glad Lynn and Jesse did plant them. As I use them in all my mixed “Cowboy” relishes, I stopped in Cook this morning and bought three four packs of King of the North. I came home and planted them in the leftover part of the tomato row where the leftover Bill Beans and Shady Bills had been planted. I have room for four more, which I’ll pick up the next time I go to town. The gardens are nearly filled up but we have to plant more potatoes, which I’ve got cut up and sitting in a bucket on the front porch. — Jackie
Providers, then I will make planting every two weeks
I want everything to continue until the freeze. I’m really depending on this garden!
I’m making everything stretch until Wednesday!
As Mom use to say “. Feast one day and famine the next!”
You budget but when the prices are going up sometimes it gets a let tight! You use a lot of imagination to overcome:)
Take care
With Providers, you only have to plant once. Then keep them picked and they’ll produce heavily all summer until frost.
Rainfall off the roof Beautiful scenery!Glad you got out before any lightning Storms are always enjoyable from Inside! Had a great deal on onion sets this spring So replanting some where my start from seeds died out Tough growing season again this year. Enjoy Mason s graduation party What a good friend to show up for weeding and replanting.Have another good rain!
Yep, we are careful about lightning. We had a friend killed by lightning and another cowboy friend struck on his horse. After they regained consciousness, the horse’s shoes were entirely missing!! Thank God they were both okay.
Yes, so far, it’s been quite a tough growing year.
We had straight line wind up to 80mph and rain-1 inch. Several power poles were blown down. Many homes without power. We and our sons were ok with generators. Still people without power soon 3 days. We had a lot of trees go down and there will be no shortage of firewood. Now to get to cutting it all up. We had a fair amount of wind damage. When I call our insurance carrier you can’t get a response-the phone is answered with “ leave a message”. We had to fix various sections of fence due to downed trees. This has created a lot of work. It reminds me of how you eat a whale-one bite at a time. I’m thankful we didn’t get hail. The gardens are all planted and held up well. There are worse things that can happen. I’m always surprised how late you plant potatoes-mine are blooming.
We usually get the whole month of cold spring rains which rots early-planted potatoes. So now we plant later and, gee, we always get a wonderful harvest. I’m sorry to hear you got that bad storm. We had a few 60 mph gusts that sure made our windcharger howl as the brake went on, and rain, but no huge storm like you got. I’m sure glad you didn’t get hail!! Will’s out today, cutting down trees off our fence line so he can turn the cows out of the lot. It was so hot and dry that the pasture just sat there. He didn’t want them to eat it to the roots.
What a beautiful picture. Love all the flowers. We’ve had some rain this spring after a very long drought. It’s been wonderful but we could use more. It’s hot, in the 90s, and humid here in the Texas hill country. The gardens are doing great except for squash bugs. What do you use for them? So happy you got rain.
We are so very lucky that we don’t get squash bugs. I think it’s too cold up here for them to survive the winter. We’ve had a lot of customers tell us that they only plant Gueramon Martinique now, as that variety seems very resistant to them.
Thanks for your view from the porch. I love to see the mix of colors from a distance.
We love the colors too. Pretty soon the peonies will be blooming to really spice things up, color-wise.
My area has received at least 5 inches this month. We need it and we should be close to making up our shortfall. It has been humid however – highest was 93% last Saturday. Heat and rain did in what few strawberries were left. I am sure the weeds are on overdrive but cooler weather – 70s coming up. And not much rain forecast. Should dry up somewhat making weeding not a muddy mess.
Better half sucked it up and hoed the garden Tuesday, it was humid so he took his time and drank plenty of water. The basement is a great place to cool off after being outside.
We’ve only had a little over 1″ this month so we can sure use more. Right now, I’d just rather it didn’t rain as I’m trying to get the rest of the garden planted. We have grandson, Mason’s, graduation party to go to tomorrow but should get some stuff done in the morning.
Wow!! 90° ! That’s hot! On the porch it’s 98° with a heat index of 102°
I’m planting bush Kentucky wonder beans and dill right behind eàch row then in two weeks I’m planting Provider bush beans.
I hope they crank out a lot of beans.
We need rain now only supposed to get.10 inch tonight – it was a forecast of 2-3 inches and large hail and 80 miles per hour winds. The forecast can change in a hurry.
I’m glad you got rain and got almost everything planted
I had had better finish this row of beans and start on something else :)
Take care
You can count on the Providers. I gave up on Kentucky Wonders a few years ago as they seem to make a big picking then quit, where Providers keep making beans to can until it freezes.
I sure hope you didn’t get that bad wind and hail!! I saw what that storm brought to a lot of folks and it wasn’t pretty.