At least we had a couple of dry days

After we had a couple of dry days in the second half of last week, we got rained on during the first couple of hours at the market. We really don't like being rained on during market, but this was especially frustrating because we had been planning to prepare some fields that afternoon. Fortunately it didn't rain too much (.2") and we were able to get some work done that afternoon. We continued working all day Sunday, and just (barely...) before the rain came on Monday we got some more space for squash to be planted.

Here are the freshly made beds after we got a half inch of rain Tuesday morning.




Of course we also got a half inch of rain on Monday. Fortunately we got up at 5:30 and got some beans and other direct seeded crops planted before it came!










We would have loved to have gotten all of this squash in the ground...




And we would have loved to have gotten the tomatoes weeded before the last couple of days of rain, but now we'll just have to wait for the next break in the weather.








At the same time the rain drove us into the greenhouse where we could tend tomatoes and plant some flowers (we like to plant flowers in the greenhouse because certain flowers' stems will become bent and unusable if they get blown over during a thunderstorm).








Other flowers are loving this rain. Look at all these sunflowers about to share their smiling faces with us!