Water, Water, Water

This has been the summer of rain! This rain has defiantly been the biggest difficulty we have faced in the garden this summer.

We have well over 100 tomato plants planted, and after a certain donation we are probably close to 150! Our tomato plot has been affected by the water most obviously. For a week we let tomatoes sit in standing water with the hope It might stop raining. Unfortunately our patience was not beneficial and we had to take action against the gathering of water. Step one was to dig a hole for the water to gather in this hole is about four feet long two feet wide and two feet deep. In addition to the hole we dug a few channels for the water to flow into the hole. Our second course of action involved using cotton string to wick the standing water away from the base of the tomato plants.

Every day even multiple times of day we have bailed hundreds of gallons of water out of this hole five gallons at a time.

I almost don’t want to mention it just in case the rain hears me but, its hasn't really rained the past couple of days. YAY! It just might be drying out which will help the rest of our summer plans in the garden.

The next difficulty we have accredited to the rain we have received is our corn. Out corn is knee high by July, but tasseling… there is not much we can do at this point but wonder if we are going to get any harvest from our corn. Has this ever happened to anybody? Did you have any harvest?