Pray for Rain

We’ve been 7 days without rain and none is in sight for two weeks. This is not a good place to be with my garden. I spent a good two hours working outside this morning. It wasn’t enough, but it was all I could take. It did act as a bonus spa treatment as at least one layer of skin sloughed off from the sweating.

I need a lot more time to water, but am not going to be here much to do it. So I tried to water deep today.

It appears that some animals consider my zinnias a drive through and have eaten all the leaves off a bunch of stems. I may or may not get any zinnias this year.

The vegetable garden started producing green beans. If you want a cheap and fast crop buy green beans seeds. They grow easily and you get a bunch of green beans from each plant continuously.

I also picked the first four cherry tomatoes. I have plenty of tomato plants and not a lot of fruit coming. Tomatoes are the whole reason for the garden. The arugula is out of control. If you want some just come and cut it from the two beds outside the garden. It will grow back.

All I ask for is a little rain, maybe Saturday night if I get to be specific in my prayers. We just can’t go three weeks without rain in this heat. Well we can, but it will be sad.