Everything is doing pretty good. I got some damage from the storms to my sunflowers and the tobacco got a little beat up, but everything is growing well.
The tobacco finally started growing UP instead of out. I harvested the bottom leaves and they are hanging in the kitchen to cure.
And we got another 1/3" of rain today. The drought is officially over as far as I'm concerned.
/johnny
Knock on wood. Hope that drought is really and truly over for all you guys.
In the 80s here also, but feels like it’s hotter. I weeded, lopped branches off crepe myrtles, mowed my entire yard, then weed-whacked just the back yard today, before I finally had to call it a day. When I got in, my clothes were drenched through to my skin. A shower revived me, but I dread the long, hot summer that’s starting. Oh, my aching back.
We have been having a good bit of slow drizzling rain over the last two weeks, and most of the spring, actually. We have grass runners going toward the bare spots from the drought and we trans-planted some grass plugs along with spreading some grass seed earlier this spring that is also doing good. Slow rain and spreading grass runners are important to us because we live on a hill were erosion control is important. At the height of the drought, our soil was like beach sand for about a foot deep or more, and we have a shaded lot with very little sun. There was no sign of recovery last year, even though we had plenty of rain.
Starting a little cheapo project making self-watering containers for those hot, dry Tx summers. punching holes in the bottom for a straw with a twisted mop thread inside. Using waterproof epoxy glue to attach the straw below and checking on the drip regulation test. It aint pretty but works so far before testing in the garden.It’s at 70 here now but was higher earlier. And muggy! We got about 1 1/4” of rain this afternoon. That’s good so I didn’t have to water the yard. It’s been so hot that I’ll take this weather any time.
The poison whatever has mostly quit itching and is starting to heal. Still haven’t figured out what it was but the lettuce patch is gone, gone, gone.
Have blooms on the volunteer tomatoes and squash. Something ate the new transplants - again. The corn is starting to make.
