Ok, I never thought I’d say that but we’ve been getting a ton of rain this spring, upwards of 23 inches just since I started tracking it in the middle of March.  Our lakes are full, our soils are saturated and really, I think I’m starting to be ready for some heat.  Lots of our plants are natives to Texas, not Bolivia and thus are probably also ready to dry out.  I’m hoping we don’t get any that drown.

We got 2.9 inches last night and it was raining when I got up.  We’re due for 1-2 more inches over the next 24 hours.  And yet, we have two neighbors who were watering this morning.  It’s hard not to shake your head and wonder how clueless some people can be but then I know I do some pretty clueless things sometimes too.

Since I hate to blame myself for things unless I have to, I’m currently blaming the soil for my veggie woes (it’s June and I’ve harvested exactly 2 cherry tomatoes, even though I’ve had a ton of stuff planted since March).  So I bought some garden soil and humus from Home Depot on Thursday and planted two more tomato plants, a sweet bell pepper, two slips of sweet potato and half a row of pinkeye purple hull peas.

We’ll see how this goes.  By my calculations, the peas should be ready to harvest on August 26th.  That sucks.