Any ideas from other Texas garden FReepers?
We had so much rain on this of DFW that one of the cantaloupe split. We ate it anyway.
I've got my fall tomato seedlings outside in Solo(tm) cups, and they are doing fantastic with the weather.
I've had at least 5" of rain here this week.
/johnny
We got over 4” in the gage, but the storm on Wednesday had the rain flying sideways. Winds must have been over 40 MPH. I had a pan in the yard that has vertical sides and it had over three inches in it, and the gages had 1.5, so I don’t know how much we got.
How about it?? Are the rest of you texans getting any good rain?? I hope so.
When I lived in TX (’70s-early ‘80s) I never noticed a shortage of rain in the summer. Of course, that was Houston which is almost tropical.
No ideas for you on the city water. I probably got an inch or so, woo hoo! It was a lovely little rain the first morning and then a few spinkles a couple days later. It kept the temps down so that one of the black cherry tomatoes put on fruit and suddenly some of the peppers plants doubled in size. I brought in 5 cukes today, more than all summer. You can water all day but rain does special things. Ack, it also does special things to the weeds 'cause they've come back in force. I spent over an hour this morning pulling in one little spot that I had just weeded around the 4th. It looks like I haven't done a thing. Ack, the rain brought in the FLIES! They were solid on the bird seed and humming bird feeders. There were so many that hubby hung some fly strips on the porch (as if that was going to help the great outdoors) and they were covered within minutes. I also replanted common garlic and elephant garlic. Planted ginger in a pot to see what happens. Some bush beans got planted where the first 2-3 tomato plantings didn't work. Most of the newly re-planted yellow squash is up but there is one spot that wasn't so stuck an acorn squash in. I can't believe the mustard still hasn't come up that was replanted on the 9th and that was the last of those seeds. I thought the okra got eaten by deer but it is armadillos. They're digging up everything including the newly re-planted herb bed. Chamomille, basil and something else is coming up but they have dug holes in everything else. They've scattered bulbs everywhere. I was waiting to see if the okra recovered but it was eaten to the ground so looks like it will need to be replanted a third time. I'm now thinking it might have been armadillos that got the first round or two of tomoates and onions during the spring though it would have to be the younger ones to get through the fencing. One day the plants would happy and the next they had completely disappeared, poof! Mother Nature is slapping herself silly making me replant everything three times this year. I found a bunch of bugs, half inch long tiny black millipede looking things, chewing on a weed (who knew bugs lowered themselves to eat weeds?) so squished all I saw this morning so will have to remember to take the spray out tomorrow. I made a list of seeds on hand for next year and what was needed because getting seeds locally is iffy at best. The stores don't get them in until April and that's just too late. I found some I needed at an out of town Walmart this week but have put a list of needs/wants in my wallet just in case. At the grocery store last week, I bought a bag of mixed dried soup beans and separated out a few of each variety to try planting some day.