So, today it was sunny, and then it rained, all at the same time. Kind of fun to see the rain bouncing off of the hood of the neighbours truck with the sun shining through it.
It really pours when it rains, but 5 minutes later the sun dries everything up. Our stage two water restrictions are tight, we can water by hand every second day, and it’s only for a few hours. If you want your plants to live, you learn to stay home during your water day and get those gardens watered. This is only the end of May, makes me worried about what is going to happen during the hot summer months. I don’t care about the lawn, it can go brown, but this is the first year for my plants from the coast, and I hope we can continue to water them.
Of course that hasn’t deterred some of our neighbours who still insist on sprinkling their lawns during the heat of the day, when ever it suits them….life isn’t the same for everyone.
Picked our first radishes, yes, we are a little behind up here, but the salad greens are growing, and the peas are up to 12 inches tall now.
The sweet peas I planted over a month ago have just come through the soil, they had better hurry up before the heat.
That’s a squash flower, and I am hoping for many more, and some growth. The days are really warm, but the nights are still cool, so the cukes, and squash plants are rather static.
I found the loveliest little clematis for cheap the other day, and here it is rewarding me with a bloom already.
It’s marked for a spot on the fence out back, I am just hoping that my neighbour doesn’t chop it down. He likes to trim the grass under the fence a little close for comfort, and anything that hangs over his side, will and can be chopped down…he is very tidy!
Maybe I can bribe him with a spool of weed wacker twine and he will let it grow.
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
Love the rain drop photos. I do hope you will be able to keep your plants alive with the water restrictions, that rain has to help some. Beautiful Clematis...Here'shoping the neighbor doesn't get too close to it once it's planted.
ReplyDeleteI tried squash last year, didn't get many. It took me a while to realize the deer love the blossoms, and ate them all during the night. This year I'm ready with my fencing.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great rain/shine photo! And all the photos are beautiful, but I'll have to say that the last one of the marigolds was breathtaking! What a gorgeous gold. You should move up here. My nearest neighbor lives half a mile away. :-)
ReplyDeletePeople are just planting their gardens now..I think it froze again last night..or very close to it. Do you have a rain gutter where you can catch rain water in buckets? My cousin and parents do that all the time. I suppose you don't want to point out to your stupid neighbors that they are wasting water sprinkling during the day:)
ReplyDeleteWe have lived with water restrictions, too. In fact, 90% of Colorado has been declared to be in a drought. I am asking myself when did the last one end? We are fortunate that we have access to well water that waters everything; however, we do use city water to water the garden because we do not trust the quality of the well water since sewer lines are near by. At any rate, you learn to water early in the morning, use timers to turn the sprinklers off, and you tolerate brown spots in your lawn and pray for rain. Sun and Rain? My mother used to say that meant the Devil was beating his wife. Now where did she come up with that?
ReplyDeleteWow! Your garden is coming right along! Those radish look deelish. We have 2 rain barrels for the 'when needed' water, since we are well waters.
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to have a 'tidy' neighbor but my neighbor knows not to touch anything on my side of the fence without first telling me.
TTFN ~
Have a lovely week ~
Marydon
Beautiful photos Jen. I love the one of the rain dancing through the sunlight. And radishes from the garden?? Yummy. You live in a very challenging climate for gardening. Enjoy the day! Pamela
ReplyDeleteWhen you plant your clematis why not put a semi-circle of protection around the base of it. Some sort of plastic edging or maybe a half of a clay pot to be artistic. Anything to stop that weed whacking neighbour.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet that those radishes taste better than any you have ever had down here.
You captured the rain beautifully. We get a lot of that rain/sun mix this spring but now we are just getting a lot of cloudy sprinkly days.
ReplyDeleteIt must be considerably warmer for you than our weather as I have barely planted my garden and you already have squash blooms.
Are you able to capture the rain water? We have rain barrels hidden behind the garage.
Gardening is beautiful though regardless of the challenges.
Your garden is already leaps and bounds ahead of ours. Great capture with the rain on the truck hood. My Mom has a few rain barrels under her eaves that she uses to water her plants. It doesn't last long though.
ReplyDeleteMy aunt and uncle used to water their plants with dish water and bath water (no bath oils). They had tight water restrictions before a huge reservoir was built near them.
ReplyDeleteYou've captured the rain falling extremely well. It always gets me to see people watering their lawns in the middle of the day or even during a rainy day!!! What the heck!!??? I'll never understand. For me, it's early morning or like most times, early twilight.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the shot of the rain falling on the hood of the truck! GREAT SHOT!
ReplyDeleteSo I'm curious... are there restrictions on watering if its with a dripper system that uses less water than handwatering?
Cindy at Rosehaven Cottage
an unusual climate indeed up there...my veg garden is finally taking off too...love those radishes...
ReplyDeleteI so enjoy garden radishes.
ReplyDeleteYours look so yummy.
I cut mine tiny, tiny the radishes in eggsalad sandwiches.
If you run out of little green onions.
The radishes are just as tasty.
My company loved it to day along with other sandwiches I served.
Then my early Christmas shortbreads
I made. With colored icing sugar on top of them.
With a great cup of coffee.
I won their heart as hubby had to go to work so it was a quick lunch with his wife as well.
Like your pictures.