Two Feet in the Dirt

Driving home Saturday evening after a long day at the market, I noticed some clouds that looked suspiciously like thunderheads. By the time we got home, we were seeing flashes of lightning and soon enough, completely out of line with the forecast, it started to rain! We ended up getting about a quarter of an inch, which isn’t too shabby given the extreme dryness recently. The ideal for keeping the crops happy is to get about an inch of rain per week, with more needed during hotter weather. At this point, even getting a quarter of an inch takes some of the pressure off of us and provided us with...

The extremely dry weather has continued since I posted last week and at this point there seems to be no reprieve in sight. We did end up getting another 0.3 of an inch of rain last week, but that still only brings us to a grand total of under an inch of rain since the end of August. And despite how it seems, it’s actually a much larger challenge to have it so dry at this time of year as opposed to in the height of the summer. During the summer, almost everything we are growing is planted as transplants (as opposed to being seeded directly into the ground) and...