June 8th Update

 Still no rain worth counting. We may have had an two inches since last post. We are at least 11" down for the year. 

A graph from local station showing where we are in 2026 compared to last four years. We desperately need the rain. 

I have taken photos since last post so I thought I would do some comparisons. First from last post I planted the green beans. All photos about 2 weeks apart. Those are the potato bags I bought and used some potatoes we had that sprouted eyes, so why not. I had to add extensions to the bags but more on that later. 

The planted sweet corn has really been taking off and I planted a few watermelon seeds in between where a couple plants didn't come up. 

Onions are still going well. Hard to mess them up.

I had that one bed that I needed to clean out of weeds and get planted, and I just so happened to have a few plants from the island of misfit plants to go in. One that I am interested in was one of the leaders on another tomato plant that I put into a jar of water for a couple of weeks. It didn't look too good going into the ground but I planted it deep so fingers crossed it works out. 

Some of these went in where a brandywine died off from unknown circumstances. I just can't get them to grow here. I have one remaining and it's hanging on. 

Here is said sad plant that I planted. 

And here is the former weed bed planted out. 

The rest are tomatoes that we are starting to get some cherries off of. 

Here are the potato bag extensions that I made. I was going to but and cut some plywood boxes to extend the bags as they are not big enough to contain the plants themselves. Instead a found this siding underlayment and gorilla tape. I just rolled it up inside of the bag and taped it off. I added more dirt and they seem to be holding in place. 

Here's a couple overall views. I finally got the edge border down, then put down all of the cardboard we been saving and doubled up on the landscape fabric where I didn't cover with cardboard, then mulched everything. I was a long morning for me to get it done. 30 bags of mulch is what it took. I also picked up some nice bushes that I installed at the front and some daylilies that will be for another post. 

There's the girls' coop on the right.

I'd like to have another 8 beds for next year. 

WOF of the week. We'll go with waste of feathers. We've been letting the girls out more and more so I caught a couple cruising around. 

Sorry if this seems cut up but I will try to post more often.