Hey, this week’s chat will be the old good news, bad news theme. One good thing about a very wet year is many times you get the rain needed to get fall vegetables going. That was the case this week for us. We got a couple of rains last week that replenished our soil moisture and it got dry enough to get some ground ready so I sent others to market on Saturday and plowed up a new field and worked it down for planting. We got it planted with turnips, kale, greens, and other fall veggies that it was time to plant and then the rains came. In fac,t I got a little wet getting to the house. Also because it has continued to rain but not as excessive as it has most of the season I was able to get a good stand of beans for fall and some other stuff.
Now for the bad news part of our week. We had a good stand of orange cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage on A-frames out under the trees to transplant when they got big enough. The rains came a little hard for those young plants and did a number on them. Then some kind of bug found them and about finished them. We have seed to replant all but the cauliflower, which costs ten cents a seed, but it sets us back two weeks.
I hope the rain will be enough to get what I planted up because boy was it miserable yesterday while we were planting. I would hate to think I put all that effort into a lost cause.
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