After such a dry spell, we got a drenching 2 inches of rain. It wasn’t supposed to rain, according to the weather forecast, so Will went out and cut three fields of hay, figuring three dry days to get it up and baled. First, he got a flat tire on the big Kubota. He spent a whole day getting it off and loaded on the trailer, along with the spare. Of course, it was the year-old tire he bought new online. It was a sidewall leak, and it leaked out a bunch of beet juice (put in instead of calcium chloride to prevent freezing and add weight to the wheels), at over $2 a gallon. So, he cut hay with the International. The hay was beautiful with lots of clover. Of course, the next day it poured! So much for weather forecasts, huh?
Well, we did need the rain. The day before, I had gone out and replanted sweet corn in the North Garden along with some more pumpkins to sell. I was just finishing up when it started raining. I did make it to the house before it cut loose, however. The good news is the rain is bringing on the second planting of Bear Island and Simonet corn in the North Garden and sure watered all the plants that are already up.
There are billions of little, tiny baby frogs everywhere right now. I have to watch the ground constantly, so I don’t step on them. I’m not sure where they all came from as it’s a long way to the beaver ponds or even our backyard fishpond. One of life’s mysteries, I guess.
Today I seeded out the last of our small Hopi Pale Grey squash as I’m getting low on seeds to sell and we still have three weeks before we turn our seed business over to Lynn and Jesse. I was surprised that even those little squash had nice, fat seeds. A couple of the squash even had seeds which were sprouting inside! Our squash in the gardens all look great. I’m sure Will’s weeding, spreading a thick layer of manure around each plant, then mulching them has a lot to do with it. — Jackie
Tis the year of frogs I think. Like you, we don’t have a water source close by (unless you count one on the ground wildlife water source). I know I have toads in the strawberry patch – which like the asparagus patch and perennial garden needs weeding. Our heat dome is back so I may just have to suck it up and plod along.
IMHO, it is getting harder to forecast the weather. Climate change is real and I don’t foresee things getting better any time soon.
Our last power outage was nasty – better half had to drive three towns over to get fuel for our generator. Time to suck it up and do a natural gas whole house generator. Driving during non-winter months for fuel is one thing but a winter outage means near blizzard/blizzard/ice conditions. None of those makes travel easy. In my area, the days of a non-farm having a gas tank/barrel have sailed.
Just imagine that they are fairy frogs and they are going to eat every bug that you have! LOL 🤣.
We are under a Flash flood watch until Sunday.
The way it rained today I can see why – just a white sheet of rain! My tomatoes plants and banana peppers are looking good.
It’s really hard not to buy produce from the grocery store while waiting for the garden but I read about some kind of intestinal parasite in/ on the produce and decided I could wait.
Your garden looks really good. I’m still planting.
Sorry about the tractor tire! Everything so expensive.
I had to have a tire plug today and it was 25.00 . Had a screw in it.
Take care ❤️