We got rain every day for weeks and weeks. Around 6 or more inches the first two weeks in June. It misted all day yesterday morning, but today we have sunshine and no rain so far.
Hope to have another dry day so the soil can maybe be worked. Wicked volunteers of everything sprouting up all over, including maters and weeds!
We have had plenty of rain .... I have watered one time other than the first week I put in the tomatoes. We had a shower two days ago with more T-storms in the forecast, plus a cool, wet weekend ahead. My raised beds are in a field and the grass around them is getting pretty tall (mower is broken AGAIN as of last week, dagnabbit), plus I put down Milorganite to keep the deer away & now the grass that is growing is REALLY growing & green!
This morning, I was up at 6 & at the garden by 6:20. The darn crows eat my tomatoes when they are still green so I have draped netting over the bed, but with tomatoes growing through it, that was a temporary situation. Yesterday I bought 6 4’ metal posts & I got lucky .... found a 50’ roll of 4’ all-purpose netting in the shed about a week ago. It took me two and a half hours to set posts & work out a way to get the netting up. I set it 18” away from the bed which hopefully does not give the crows enough room to fly in/land, but gives me enough room to weed/harvest. I can take the whole fence down except off of one anchor post to help mow/trim the grass. I think it’s a pretty clever arrangement ... used 4’ bamboo stakes woven through the netting to give me a solid edge to use as gates. Anyway, it took me ‘til after 9:00 to get it all up, stake up the tomato cages that are falling down in the other raised bed & weed it, then pick up all my trash (zip tie ends, wrapping off the netting, trimmed netting, etc.). I was so hot and dirty, the shower was the first stop when I hit the house and I am not going out again the rest of the day.
On a happy note, the crows usually visit the garden very early ..... by 6:30, they came by and were very upset to find me out there. They sat in the trees around the field and fussed me out for a good 30 minutes and I could hear them in the area for at least an hour. My SIL came by to see what I was up to when she saw me in the field and commented on the crows being so vocal so she even noticed how P.O.’d they were. I have some nice tomatoes on the vine so now I’m looking forward to them having the opportunity to ripen!