Saturday, August 4, 2018

Left, a monarch butterfly in the garden.

Hi.

The heavy rain has continued. We've had at least 5 inches this week on top of all we had the week before. This presents problems of course. The fact I planted a lot of stuff in raised beds has helped a bit as the plants themselves haven't been drowned. The pumpkin seedlings in their hills seem to have actually done very well. My various squash plants have gone berserk and the vegetable patch now resmbles something out of a plant-based 50s B movie. 'The Sensational Sinister Squash Plant' maybe? Some of the young fruits have, unfortunately, rotted and the growth of the fruits has become a little stunted as we have had day after day of rain and little sun.

We've now got a few days (at least) break in the weather and I expect the garden to go BOOM. The cucumbers continue to produce, my bean bushes are still yielding green beans (but in dwindling numbers and size) so we're not doing too badly. My tomatoes have been a challenge, though. The constant heavy rain has made the ground so sodden that, even with stakes, the plants all keep flopping over. I've therefore given them bigger stakes driven in deeper to the ground and this has helped a lot. There's a lot of fruit coming along nicely and I'm looking forward to it, I love fresh tomatoes. I also love the smell of the plants.

That's it for now, take care!

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