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Rain again
George Shirley wrote:
Last two days we have gotten five inches of rain, the majority falling over the last 24 hours. Lots of flooding in the Houston area but not where we live. Lost power last night for about eight hours. Happens frequently where we live, I suspect either a bad transformer or a bad fuse. I finally turned all the electronics off last night to avoid catastrophic failure as the power was dropping on and off for about an hour, not the best thing to do to electronics. for the expensive electronics always a good idea to have a UPS in the circuit if your power company is flaky. unplugging or surge protectors can help but i don't think either is worth it if you can afford a few $ for the UPS instead. The garden has thoroughly enjoyed the rain, seems as if all the plants doubled in size overnight. I suspect it was all the nitrogen brought down from the rain. Squash plants a week ago were four or five inches high, now they're over a foot high. Tomatoes, eggplant, and sweet chiles are covered with blooms. The pole beans, both lima and green, are climbing like lantana, fast. Cukes are finally starting to climb but as yet no blooms. The fig tree is setting fruit and I'm already seeing flower buds on the kumquat. The lonely two pears on our Tennousi pear are about the size of my thumb already. i'm jealous and envious... it was a beautiful day out here with rains forecast for most of the week. still i don't believe it until i see it. Saturday we were supposed to have a 70% chance of rain and it ended up being four sprinkles of not much at all. we have had some rain so it isn't as dry as the folks out west, and i would not mind another nice week of fairly dry weather so i can get a few more gardens ready for planting and get some other weeding or goofing around done. nothing beats a nice early spring day for getting stuff done that didn't get done last fall and so it is good to me. yesterday we went back and pulled some trash out of the ditch, one large garbage container we can't get and so i said we could wait until the water warms up enough that i can go in after it. We hoped for more pears but we had no bees at the time of bloom. We're seeing a few honey bees plus mason, carpenter, and bumble bees but not enough to do a good job of pollination. No bee flies as yet but I know they're around somewhere. The new subdivision going in behind us isn't helping as that was where most of our bees were coming from the now non-existent woods. No need to seek out a beekeeper as the dairy farm nearby has been spraying again by aircraft and we get the over spray. The damned farm is two miles away and we still get spray. I think I shall complain. In addition they plant rye grass every fall and we get that over flight too. It's a PITA to be digging rye grass out of the gardens and lawn. It does get into the composter though. i've never heard of seeding rye grass by plane before... Otherwise it's a decent day, cool, overcast with a threat of more rain, which in Texas is never enough. It was only a few years ago that we were in severe drought conditions. Rain is a blessing we needed and will for some time as there are more and more restrictions on using ground water. hope things out west start coming around too. it's been a tough stretch for them. We're still harvesting lettuce, radishes, beets, spinach, chard, and other "winter" greenery and enjoying it. The Barbados dwarf cherries are in full bloom and all of about eighteen inches high. Make a good display in the front flower bed, backed by the perennial Bright Lights chard and, we might actually get some of the tiny, edible cherries. the harvest here recently has been weeds/grasses i want to get out of some gardens before it takes over and some bulbs we want to move and even if it isn't the best time to do it, it is getting done anyways. none of them are the only ones we have so they can take a year or two to bounce back and we won't be out any major blooms. some fresh garlic would be good if i had something to cook... i may have to process the garlic i have in the garage as it looks to be starting to sprout. keeping it out there and well covered has kept it a few months longer than i had been able to keep it before. i'm sure a fair amount of it will not be that good any longer, but if i can get a few jars of prepared garlic in the freezer then they make good gifts for others and Ma will use them in the winter months for her cooking. still no catbirds this spring, hope they will come back, i always enjoy their songs. songbird |
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