Dry Gardening

Rain! It was so exciting! This rainfall is so welcome, I had to take a picture.  Good thing I moved quickly:  the rain stopped a few minutes after I snapped this image.  But it lasted long enough for me to dance in the slightly-wet grass.

















Assisted-watering is the rule this summer.  It's been weeks - I've lost track - since we had any rain, even a short shower.  These lilies, inside the fenced veggie garden have survived and bloomed only because they are established and they are getting water along with the struggling vegetables.  The poor blackberries finally did set a few blooms, but the fruit was pathetic.  Last summer I harvested almost 35 pounds of berries.  This year, I picked 5 berries.  The beans are looking very fine, but have no blooms.   The bean rows were heavily mulched with turkey litter and leaves last fall, so the nitrogen content is high.  Good nitrogen = good foliage.  All hat and no cattle.  I didn't bother snapping images of the the rest of the garden, it's so pathetic.  Oh well, there is next summer.