It was a soggy weekend here in Central Missouri. Inch of rain Friday, another inch Saturday, 2.2” Sunday. We’re going to have fun mowing the yard when the ground is dry enough to get over it.
The birdhouse gourds I started are ready to set out, but I’m afraid I’ll sink to China if I step foot in the garden.
Been picking snow peas that were supposed to be snap peas for the last week. Pole beans are mostly up. 2nd planting of sweet corn spiked yesterday. First planting is ready for a top dressing of nitrogen. Tomatoes were mostly out of their transplant funk before the deluge came - they certainly didn’t need 4+” of rainfall right now.
Collards are sprouting in the greenhouse. Basil is sprouting. Two more American Senna popped up over the weekend. Still only one of the six Red Canna seeds has come up. No sign of peach or pawpaw.
Cabbages are rocking. Spaghetti squash looks good. Cukes are up about 3”. Kale in the raised bed is big enough to start picking on. Beets in the raised bed are sizing up.
The sun is shining today so I might try to dig in the spud bed to see how much varmint damage has been done.
My pond hit the overflow over the weekend. First time in three years it’s been full.
Mostly waiting for the ground to dry up at this point.
I wish you could have sent an inch of that to us. Most of the rain either went west of us (you) or to the east*, or north or south of us, too. Looking at my impromptu "gauges", after things cleared for good, it looks like we totaled 3/4" or so, so, that only helps our drought a little. It's better than nothing, but the question is whether or not the spigot will turn off completely the way it often does for us, in early July.
*There's evidently been plenty of rain in the majority of the Ohio River watershed: The Ohio River @ Shawneetown, IL, is actually at minor flood stage.