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Blue-Jay
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Three years of drought how awful. I hope the one year old drought we are having here doesn't go that long. We are in moderate drought but with the heat that we have had this summer if I had not watered all my beans I'm sure would be dead by now. I haven't watered now for two weeks and tomorrows forecast is for rain starting around 7 am and going on and off all the way to 2 am Thursday morning. So many times the rain forcasted just evaporates when the day arrives. If no rain tomorrow I will be at it again with the garden hoses.Hello! I am sitting waiting for the latest storm to rumble over and wondering if there will be a dry day coming up to dig the garlic. It has been a “regular” rain summer after three years of drought and I had forgotten how nice and lush everything grows (including the weeds of course).
All the beans are blooming or have bloomed. Many are growing pods and this is the time of the year when the beans are at their greatest water requirement if the seed is going to be well filled out and of good germination.