Rain

Yesterday and the day before we finally had a significant amount of rain.  The garden looks so much better now.  So do the dang weeds!  LOL

The beans are flowering, and the Italian peas are blooming also, it is easy to miss the pea blooms and I found a few pods on the plants already.  As I said last year, these need to be picked daily because they produce over a nice long period of time, like the pole beans. 

I ate a carrot from the garden last week, yummmm, should have a few more in a week or 2, I tried to get one out of the ground a few days ago and it wouldn't budge, the ground was too hard.  Tomorrow I will try again and see if I can get the biggest ones out. 

The chard is still producing nicely.  There are two plants and I get a nice bunch to eat about every 3-4 days.  I like to wilt it with some vinaigrette, wine, a few drops of liquid smoke, a bit of sugar and a little water.  I planted 4 more a few weeks ago but I don't think they will grow.  There wasn't enough moisture even though I watered the spot every day.  Maybe it was too hot.  Some seeds don't like to grow when it is too hot out.