Rain!

Good news. We got 3.5 inches of rain late yesterday! There is a possibility of more later today. It is amazing how rain just lifts the spirits!

I did my morning walk-about and it seemed the corn had grown overnight. This was taken in the backyard garden and is hybrid sweetcorn.

From Backyard Garden

I found a few small pink tomatoes on one of the volunteer plants in the backyard garden. I am guessing it is Pink Ping Pong.

I checked out the new garden and took a few pictures. The cows were all around it but so far, they respect the hotwire.

It is difficult to get a picture including everything so I did it in sections.

The west side, two rows of tomatoes:

From New Garden/Orchard

This shows the cows grazing and the pumpkin and sweet potato end:

From New Garden/Orchard

From New Garden/Orchard

and here you can see the little pole beans I planted a week or so ago at the base of the corn stalks:

From New Garden/Orchard

I found so many beetles on some plants that I mixed up Sevin and sprayed. If it gets washed off, maybe I will get some kill anyway. They have done a lot of damage on my pole beans already.

Well, off to the kitchen to finish cooking down a couple more jars of plum jam. That will complete the harvest. I picked them this morning.

Lunch is going to be what Mom called goulash. It is a hamburger, chili, tomato sauce, macaroni dish, not Hungarian Goulash. We love it and now we can have a lettuce and tomato salad with it.