June 16-I arrived on the farm this morning to see wet soil thanks to Thursday evening's shower. This pattern is forecast to continue for a few days. It is quite a contrast to last season when the year to date precipitation was already a few inches below norm. If anything, it has made weeding the beds less of a chore. Last year at this time the weeds were already so overgrown I practically gave up on them.
I noticed a couple more fruit on the melon vines, including one on a Jenny Lind.
A Cherokee Purple tomato is slowly changing color on a plant on the slope. A lone zinnia has bloomed. By Monday, more will appear. By next Friday, a profusion. The same may hold for the Valentine sunflowers. The display will be spectacular. I counted 12 buds on a single stalk.
I remembered seeing straw in a storage trailer in back of the property where CC the Calico Cat likes to explore for mice. I've gathered a few buckets' worth of it in the past two days to mulch around the melon plants. One more trip to the trailer and I will complete mulching all the melon hills, plus a few volunteer tomato plants.
Old Cadillacs never die. The finance company take 'em and faaaaade 'em away.
