My goodness gracious. It has been so hot and DRY lately, things are dying all around us. Lawns are brown, trees are loosing their leaves, the people are wilting themselves. Team WWOOF is so bored, I can tell. They spend a lot of time, all day usually, watering. You see with the CSA, we can’t let things die on us. Our customers are depending on a crop. Let me rephrase that. We could totally let it ALL die and the customer would have to understand, because they signed a piece of paper, and something like drought is part of the liability. But we’re too nice, and since we have a lot of help and it’s too hot to do much else, we put a hose in their hand. It’s funny, because as I type this out, it is currently raining. The rain, which has only been going on for about 20 minutes or so has prompted me to write about the dryness, because I’ve been needing to. One of our CSA members asked me the other day how things were growing. I let him know how tough it’s been and how some things are just wilting away. He totally understood if the bags were empty for the next few weeks. He shared the story of his garden with me. He said he and his wife had been gone for three weeks. Even though they had someone watering it for them, they returned and their garden was dust. This “heat wave” that the weather man has talked about has lasted for two months now. It’s more like a heat tsunami! This wave won’t leave. I guess my message to you dear reader is respect the fact that there is produce at your grocery store, and there are many, MANY factors that go into its survival. Uh oh, the rain knew I was talking about it, it just stopped : (
Jul30
we had lots of THUNDER and a few moments of relief from the sun but NO RAIN. Our Red Maple trees look like someone took a blow torch to them! I did can 3 qts. of tomatoes today, doubt i’ll get any more, but they are great! I’m going to save the seeds for next yr. The other plants are going to get pulled tomorrow, just no sense in watering plants with no flowers! BUT, of course the cucs are doing great.
The Paw-paw trees behind my house are looking pretty sad, I watered them a little a few days ago. This is the year they decided to produce fruit, but I think they’ll be tiny Paw-paws, if they even survive on the branch.