There has been nearly 40 days without measurable rain here at the Suburban Farm. This has been an unusually long stretch and if it were not for watering everything would be dried up and dead. The New Farmer is out watering right now. I remember that a priest at church once told us in a sermon that 40 in the Bible did not mean actually 40 it just meant more than you could keep count; that would be 2 people fingers and toes. It was the Israelite version of a "bazillion ". Well it does seem like it has been a bazillion days of very hot and dry weather. It is times like this when I wonder how it is that people don't see Global Warming as a problem.
The weather has reduced productivity quite a bit. Flowers, a few squash, peppers and eggplant are all coming in now.
I have put up another batch of figs and that will be what I will store for the year and the rest will be for fresh eating.
Tonight we had tomato, eggplant, pepper, squash and basil all from the garden
I have some carrots to bring in and we will be closing in on the next mile marker when we get to 150 KG which I expect to do some time this coming week.
In preparation of the coming rain the New Farmer made over a 100 newspaper pot and we have started lettuce, cabbage, kale and lots of other things for the fall garden
3.059 KG to add for a total of 146.5 KG
The garden looks really bad, dry. I need to water really good tonight. We need rain so bad.
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