It has been a little over a month since I last posted anything about items in my blog. It has been an interesting four weeks or five to say the least. We saw almost no measurable rain during June. The rain barrels had enough water to last just over three weeks with no rain before they were emptied. Earlier this week we received several days of rain so the barrels are full again and the ground is not so parched. I will have to admit that I had to break out the hose and use the city water to maintain the flowers while the rain barrels were empty. It was above 95 degrees each day for the last week of June and the plants would not have faired very well without the water. I guess the solution is more rain barrels!
The topsy-turvy is performing perfectly. There are nearly two dozen tomatoes on the plant and some of them just started to turn red yesterday. From our four watermellon plants we have lots of flowers and two small watermellon on the vine. The sweet pepper plants have almost forty flowers on four plants so we anticipated having plenty of peppers. The brocolli florets have just started to form. The brocolli plants are enormous and we are looking forward to seeing the finished results.
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