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That is awesome, LOL!

Later this growing season we’ll play, ‘What’s Growing in Diana’s Compost Pile?’ I got five nice Butternut Squash last season with NO effort whatsoever!

Don’t know how it happened, but I have some NICE lettuces growing in there right now, and I purposefully planted a ‘Juliet’ tomato in there today that I had no other room for. She will be ONE Happy Camper, I’m betting! (small Paste-type great for drying) I planted her on the corner where she can cascade down and will be easy to pick.

Well, that’s the PLAN, anyway. :)

The three varieties of lettuce from Baker Creek came in today. Two are Romaine type and one is Tennis Ball lettuce, grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, although probably not with the Tennis Ball name. It's a tennis ball size iceberg. Just thought it would be cool to have and grow.

I'm about to punish those plus several other varieties and see who can handle the heat. I'm bound and determined to have some kind of lettuce with a little crunch to it, plus nutritious leafy greens, at the same time I have ripe maters. I doubt the tennis ball will form a head in hot weather and might not grow much at all or will bolt quick so I'll only plant a few seeds of that.

Rainy season seems to be ending or has ended. I reset my rain gauge to zero and will water on a schedule and watch the rain gauge.

There's no simple way to automate irrigation based on rain amount and altering the schedule. The standard is 1 inch of rain a week. What is a week? Sun-Sat or a rolling 7 day period. I can auto-reset the rain gauge at 1 inch. I can water on a time schedule that's based on a calendar. Then there's variables like temperature, cloud cover that effect soil drying through evaporation.

I think it's time to buy a soil moisture sensor. Dead drop simple. Is it dry? Water it.