i got to the garden in a rain shower that dropped almost two tenths of an inch in my back yard this morning...there is no rain gauge that i am aware of in the garden...an addition to my bed perhaps...what it did mean was there was no need to water today...and if this eveining's forecast rainfall arrives none tomorrow either...
the asparagus has nothing against copious rainfall as long as drainage is good and the unseasonably cool temperatures are allowing it to put up more spears well past the time it should be done and concentrating on feeding the roots...
my bed is unnaturally orderly and looking unfortunately like human intervention run amok...nothing as complex as even a strawberry bed here...
the spuds are still blooming...
they have no grudge against rain or cool temperatures either...
the blooms are attractive...unfortunately i am seeing no signs of fruits..which is the point of the blooms...there is futility in nature at times...
the carolina horse nettle is looking robust in the weather as well and around the beds some of it is preparing to bloom...these will assuredly produce fruit...less selective about weather than their domesticated cousins they will bloom and fruit in any weather the climate throws at them except, perhaps, extreme drought...
elsewhere in the bed the weather is having a more deleterious impact...both alfalfa plants are blooming and both have an abundance of yellow leaves indicating a marked displeasure with the amount of rain we have had lately...the alfalfa in my back yard is sending the very same message...
the hungarian hot pepper is stunted, yellow, and just plain angry ( again, so a re the ones in my yard )...i am uncertain of its resilience in the face of an unusual ( or , perhaps, new "normal" ) weather pattern...there may be no peppers if this continues...
the maize i planted is all up...
it is stalled ( which makes me wonder about the industrial crops around here...time for a drive ) because of the temperatures most likely...it has no beef with rainfall either...and it is looking more robust than the rabbit gnawed specimens in my yard...warmer weather will get it going...along with the tomatoes...
finally there are a couple of zea mexicana plants still holding their own...the maize ancestor is inclined to like the same conditions as its domesticated descendant thrives in...both should do better if a summer actually arrives.
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