Carrots and Beans

Well the carrots are in. The Beans are in. The soaker hose is soaking. Summertime and the living is...well ...kind of tough to rhyme that one.

It seems that the potatoes that I planted last year could not take the hint that they really are not welcome in my anemic garden patch. They definitley get an A for Effort I suppose, as a couple of them are making their way up through the soil as we speak.

Reminds me of this Kale plant I had several years ago. No matter how much I neglected it , every spring as I was prepping the ground for planting, I would see new growth from its dead and dried trunk. This went on for 4 or 5 years. Then we had a New England winter from Hell, and that was the end of that.

I left the soaker hose on overnight last night to see if that will help speed up my bean and carrot seeds. Then I awoke to the weather report that they are about to unleash the monsoons on us (again) and we are in for a 4 inch deluge from the heavens.
May be time to think about a rice paddy.

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