Neighbor and I were talking rain last night and I said the same thing. May have had more rain some years but never wet for as long as it's been this year. Those April showers might end up being four months long.
Right. Some years we’ve had heavier rains, but more widely spaced in time. 2011 was pretty rough (floods), but, a lot of that rainfall was well upstream too.
I just looked at a couple holes I’d dug several days ago, when the forecast looked a bit more promising (to continue drying out). Said holes are ~10” deep, to transfer tomatoes into. They filled a couple days later, fluctuated a bit, and are still nearly full of water this morning, with rains a few hours to our west and headed our way. NWS says the rain gets here around noon... :-(
All the plants in the ground doing best are the ones I did NOT “plant deep”. (Best of all are those in pots.)