The remnants of tropical storm Bill blew threw last night. We got 1.04 inches of rain in about 2 hours, maybe less. This morning, there are a few small limbs down and I had to straighten up some things around the garden, but the overall result is some very happy plants! Everything looks green and wonderful with all of that rain.
Also today, I noticed I have my first ripe tomatoes - they are the Sugar Sweet cherry size tomatoes and they are orange rather than red and amidst the green foliage, they’re like little globes of sunshine. I ate two straight off the vine and the other two will be picked later today. My new current issue is the murder of crows that hang out around the garden in the morning - they got the largest Black Krim tomato. It was still very green so I didn’t think they’d be going after the tomatoes this early - live and learn. The temporary netting I took down just Wednesday is going back up in a different configuration to keeps the crows off of the tomatoes .... there’s always “something” going on around here with the wildlife!
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!