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Category: My greenhouse, high tunnel and garden project | Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:19 am

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Well, It has been a while since I have taken the time to sit down and write a little.

The Spring is long gone, now and I think Summer is slipping by just as fast as Spring went. The garden is dry now, dryer than I have ever seen it here. We haven't had rain for most of the Spring and Summer now. The corn is wilty and the ears are small. The tomatoes across the road are only about 2' high and have some fruit on them, but the plants are crying for some rain. The few hundred gallons of water I have carried over there have only kept them alive. They aren't thriving, though. The peppers I planted over there are just as small on their own scale. The cucumbers are a loss. They are so bitter you could use them as an anti-poisoning medicine ingredient....

Over here on this side though we can water morning noon and night, I just hope I don't run the well dry...what a worry. There is no shortage each day of what to water. It pretty much all needs some. The cantaloupes and watermelon need the least. They are loving this weather. Most days are in the mid 90's and miserable. I don't know how the animals stand it outside all the time. At least my chickens have shade. The trees and shrubs are wilted most days now and the grass is crispy. What isn't wilted has gone dormant or died. Hopefully it will rain soon.


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eileen wrote on Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:55 am:

I'd gladly give you rain if it were possible. We've had so much that the landscape has changed here to lakes and ponds everywhere. The fields are so saturated that it will take months for them to recover. I hope you get your rain soon and that we can look forward to some sunshine before summer ends.

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Netty wrote on Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:15 am:

Carolyn, it sounds like we are in the same boat. There was a thunderstorm warning here the other day and I got so excited about the chance of rain. It missed completely and I've been kind of grumpy since. I am just SO sick of watering!!!

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Sjoerd wrote on Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:31 pm:

It just sounds terrible there, C. I sincerely hopew that things improve for you REALLY soon.

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