I got my garden in too, but if we don’t get rain soon here in East Texas most of my garden will die. I’d say 40% of the grass is already dead in the yard. I’m spot watering the garden trying to keep it going. We need rain badly here.
I have a sprinkler system. I’ll water the garden and let the grass die. I’m not paying over a hundred a month for water so my lawn will look pretty.
For tomatoes try molding some wet newspaper over the top of the racks, if you use racks. If not, put up some chicken wire. It’ll keep the birds from eating them. Then put wet newspaper over the top and “mold” it to fit. It’ll stay on and shade the plant during the middle of the day.
I’m in East Texas, too (Gregg County) and we’re already having to supplement with hay for the horses.
“but if we don’t get rain soon here in East Texas most of my garden will die”
My family has struggled to keep gardens alive in south east Texas for 40 plus years. Every type of sprinkler set up we tried met with limited sucess-untill this year. I realize this sounds too simple, but we went out and bought a good quality (CLOTH) soaker hose. So far we have been nothing but hot dry and extremely windy-BUT we have the best looking garden i have ever seen so far.
I’m with you on the needing rain. I’m hand watering the garden. The only part of the lawn grass that is alive is what gets the water from the washer drain so that leaves 95% of the gras dead.
Fresh strawberries were on sale today for $1/lb and fresh cauliflower for 99 cents/each so grabbed several for the freezer (no room!). They never did restock the 50 cent green beans and peas but I snagged the last 8 cans of corn so this may be the last of the cheap canned veggies.
HEB here has a new gimmick where they’re posting the price... after the coupon is applied. They got me a while back on their sausage by posting the lb price for package rather than the whole package price like every other sausage is labelled. Well, I saw the “after coupon price” on everything but the dog food so they messed me over on that, ggrrrrrrr. It’s bad enough when they claim to supposedly be conveniently out of stock on advertized specials but this sneaky shelf pricing is really underhanded and slimy. But when they’re the only store in town, they think they can get by with it. Not a happy customer.
We got a good shower last night. Hope you did as well! 60% chance of more tonight!