second day of rain

Yesterday afternoon's rainstorm came to about 1/2", so it was about 1" overall for Saturday. This AM I woke up to the sound of a pounding rainstorm and had to sneak a peek at the tomatoes, who all seemed okay before curling back in bed. Today would have been my big watering day, but we got enough rain that I didn't need to. When I did get up, I checked the rain gauge and it showed about 3/4" from the overnight and AM rainstorms.

Again this evening we had a storm that hit just when we had gotten back from the store. This storm wasn't as long, and we got about 1/6". Still 1" yesterday and almost 1" today has been great. The weather report is still calling for rain for the next few days, so I really hope the storms keep coming.

rain this evening

The weather report was again calling for rain all day, so I made no garden plans. Bobbie and I went up to NC this morning to work with the dogs, then hit Cracker Barrel for brunch and went to Bloomfields to see if they had anything we wanted. No luck there, and we also made a fruitless chase out to the Ingles in Travelers Rest to see if they had the Forever and Ever hydrangeas (looking for a 'Together' for Mrs Phillips) like the site claimed, but no luck there.

After I got home, my mom and I went out and I got a new terra cotta pot for the rosemary on the front porch that has outgrown its pot and also got a ceramic pot for 'Blue Mouse Ears'. On the way home it finally started raining, but then stopped fairly quickly. I used the break in the rain to pot up 'Blue Mouse Ears' and finally water the potted hydrangeas with aluminum sulfate (2 tbsp per 2 gallons) and then water them well with plain water. I also pulled up some more plantain weeds.

rain has arrived

I got woken up in the middle of the night by the sounds of a very violent rainstorm. The rain seems to have continued all night and into the morning. When I got home from work, we had over 1" of rain. Great news!

only 1/2" of rain today

The weather report intially called for rain all day today and tomorrow, but we got the rain today in the AM, only about 1/2". I think I will hold off on watering on Sunday, but with no rain forcast for the next week, I'll need to water on Wednesday probably.

I had to work today, so all I did this evening was pull a few weeds. Mom harvested some lettuce and the 'Galactica' lettuce that had been in the windowbox got uprooted somehow, so I'll move one of the ones in the nursery bed to the windowbox. I also put out another box with some more 'Ananas Noir' tomato seeds this morning. In other tomato news... more flowers on 'Husky Cherry Red' and the first open flower on 'Early Girl'.