Gracias por las gotas!

Blessed, blessed rains and the gray skies that brought them! We went right past spring and into summer, it seems, and the precipitation took a little while to catch up to the heat. But it has certainly made things interesting in the garden. The astors and the mint are threatening to fill in the spiral, and the squash, cucs, melon, and tomatoes have grown several inches in just a week. But, the worst of the worst news, we have army worms. Army worms decimated our tomato crop last year and made things very unpleasant to touch and look at. At the moment they're doing bad things to the English marigolds. We're investigating their destruction.

And today I went to the Growers Market at Lake Ella, and with the $20 that Janis donated to the garden for flowers, bought some really beautiful ones to plant among the sunflowers behind the hoop. I also bought lemon and cinnamon basil and orange and creeping thyme. I did manage to get them into the ground before those big late-afternoon raindrops sent me and Woody for cover (in Spanish, those big drops get their own word--gotas!). So we may stop by again before the end of the week to get the flowers planted up.