We just got a nice little rain shower here in Central Missouri. And it was good timing as I’d finished up the garden work for today and turned on the whirly-bird sprinkler to water. Dug one row of potatoes. Got 10 gallons from a 30’ row, best yield I’ve had since I started this garden. Got the garlic all out and got most of the weeds pulled thanks to my buddy Nick and my nephew Stephen who came by this morning to help out.
My thornless blackberries are just starting to ripen and were going to need some sprinkler time in the next day or two and now thanks to Mother Nature I won’t have to do that. What a difference from last summer. I was watering the blackberries twice a week and they burned up anyway because of the heat.
Thank God for the rain. It has been a much better year for our produce. I was so afraid that there would be a repeat of last year.
The dog days are still ahead though, so keeping the rain barrels full.LOL