Cukes Starting to Produce

 

Just a couple more days and these babies will be on my plate! :)

Tomato Plants

Two of the tomato plants that I grew from seeds.  I transplanted them from the cup I started them in, and they are doing great.  All of my raised bed garden seems to be doing well.

Lettuce

 

My leaf lettuce is coming on, good and the one darker plant with them, is probably marigolds, that I scattered the same day I planted the lettuce.  I hope the marigolds make good plants this year, so the bugs will go somewhere else.

Ginger

 

This is my ginger plants, that I rooted back in the winter, and now they are really tall.  It looks like there will be a decent harvest of fresh ginger in a few months.

Planting

Onions, potatoes, lettuce, beets and radishes, are planted as of today...........Had to spray the ground outside of it, because I noticed cats and etc. have been going to the bathroom in it.........so, I'll have to keep a good watch on it, to keep them out.........will be spraying repellent ever so often.
I have plenty of other seeds to plant but, will need to wait until frost season goes away............and so the fun begins.........can't wait to see how well it does this year.......got some extra potting soil worked in to help with the soil texture.  Last year, it was too sandy and bombed out..........lost most of my plants............we will see how it goes.
Had a good rain this week, so maybe the potatoes will take to sprouting and make good harvest.  Love fresh veggies out of a garden..........home grown is the best!

Rain Has Come Again

 

Back in May of this year, we experienced the onslaught of heavy rains, for about three days, straight.  We found many people stuck on the roads in high water.  The creek and river banks were gorged and overflowing, with possible ruptures of the local dams around the lakes.  Now, we are in the middle of the same situation, with the latest weather.

 

Today, it's again raining and has been since yesterday morning, with rain amounts in the 5, 6 & 7inch range in most areas of North Texas and over most of the State.  Looks as though the rain will stay here another day or so, since Hurricane Patricia has hit Mexico and traveling up the coast in our direction.  The outer  bands of the hurricane, will continue the upper level of moisture to be present in our areas.  

We are already floating, and there has been many motorists stranded needed rescue.  

The local construction areas have been affected with flooding as well, causing delays in commuter traffic the last 24 hours.

What Rain?

The skies got dark, yesterday and the wind did it's best to blow it down to us.  But our area still didn't get any rain.  Only a tease and that's not funny considering we were almost washed away back in May of this year.  This is twice in the last week that we've had a good chance for rain and when it did come, it only last a few minutes.  It didn't even make the ground soft and there's so many cracks that need to be filled.  I swear, it's either "feast or famine"!