I haven’t posted a garden update vid in a while. We’ve been getting almost non stop rain. So some things like our new potato patch rotted, other things like the cucumbers are doing well.
Don’t mind the weeds. With all the rain the ground is so soft you can’t till it and the hoe just gum’s up with mud. I’ve been hand weeding when I can between rainy patches. But most of my time is held up canning right now.
Well the flooding in the gardens has gone down. Thankfully we have had no rain in the last 3 days. Although the weather has been very cool 16 to 18 C it has been windy. That has helped to dry up the ground.
This afternoon I headed out to do some weeding. The ground is still soft, but not as mucky. At least that makes weeding by hand easier! I finished weeding the Italian zucchinis, eggplant and two rows of tomatoes. Many more to go! LOL! I did harvest to large zucchinis and sadly found a few that had rotted during the heavy rains. I could hear water inside the stems of the zucchini plants to. But at least we are starting to harvest the zucchinis, we love them!
Since tomorrow is Canada Day here we’ll be enjoying a quiet day at home. And I hope to do more weeding.
We have been working at my sewing room renovations. It’s done!! So the last few days I’ve been unpacking bins of fabric and yarn. Its taking a while to get things set up the way I want. But I’ll share photos when I have it done. Now we can start working on the summer kitchen side again!
We have had so much rain this month. The ground hit its saturation point on Sunday. We had a lot of rain and ended up with at least 8 inches of water in the gardens. Thankfully today the water has gone down quite a bit! This week is suppose to be dry and that is so much needed. After a few days, I’ll be able to get in and get caught up on the weeds.
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