On 8/11/2015 10:29 PM, T wrote:
On 08/11/2015 05:11 PM, George Shirley wrote:
Just about O dark thirty we gratefully received about half an inch of
rain in less than an hour. Weather folk keep saying more is coming but I
haven't seen anymore.

It's amazing how much the plants perked up with just that much rain.
Temperatures dropped rapidly from 104F to the mid-nineties, making it
much better here and the AC isn't running as much as it was.

Naturally there aren't many plants left in the gardens. We still have
the sweet chiles and the eggplant plus the two new yellow squash but all
the others are now mowed and in the composter. We need some cool weather
to get out there and add our amendments to the raised beds and stir them
into the whole bed. I'm putting in a goodly amount of peat moss again in
hopes it will help to hold the water for the plants to use. That and
some really good compost is about all that we need to replenish the beds.

We seeded some earth worms from Territorial back in the spring just as
the soil was warming up. Pulling the lima beans yesterday exposed some
nice sized earth worms who immediately dove back under the planting
medium. Hopefully they will colonize the whole property eventually.

Nothing much going on here but hiding from the high heat levels.


George

Hi George,

Where do you hail from?

We got a thunderstorm here on Sunday in Northern Nevada
that was something to behold. Plants loved it. You could
almost see them grow. (They love the nitrogen in the rain
water.) Very loud on the roof! But, no hail fortunately.

-T
Northern Harris Cty, Texas, think Houston as we are in their
extraterritorial area. Lots of houses and people where there used to be
lots of woods, grasslands, and cows. I hunted on the land our
subdivision is on now back in the early sixties and there used to be
lots of "pick your own" farms with berries and fruit. Only a few of
those remain but there are two large dairies nearby with lots of milk
cows. Makes me feel good driving to the stupor market and see all those
cows grazing. Unfortunately the dairy farmers have rye grass sprayed
from the air every spring and then we have to pull it out of our gardens.

We're living on the smallest plot of land in all the 55 years of or
marriage, 6500 square feet with a 1960 square foot house on it. The only
reason we're here is that all of our children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren are within a thirty minute drive versus the former 3 hour
drive. Family trumps all.

A little history, I'm retired oil field trash and proud of it, third
generation at that. We've lived in a few states and a few more
countries, some of which were nice and some that we left pretty quick. G

I'm a U. S. Navy veteran, 1957-1963, former scoutmaster, former
gunsmith, you name it, I've tried to make some money from it to feed the
family. Life is still a wonderful thing.