It has been raining, raining, raining off and on through the month of June. About 3 inches of rain came in the storms over the past weekend. It's been wet and muddy, and difficult to get into the fields. Mom has been taking lettuce into market three days a week. The earliest planting of lettuce is picked clean. The weeds are flourishing with the rain. Even if we pulled them they would be able to keep on growing because the roots can't dry out.
Before the major rains, we did get a lot planted: zucchini, pumpkins (pictured above), cabbage, and more lettuce. Check out
this snapshot from Google maps that I have labeled with crop locations.
The first set of string is set up on the tomato patch (though this picture just shows the stakes set up) and the plants are beginning to blossom and set fruit. Dad has run irrigation lines to the fields, but only had to run water a couple times. The excess rain has prevented him from adding fertilizer and nutrients to the field through the irrigation water, besides keeping him from doing some additional planting and tilling. He says he won't complain about too much rain, though. It doesn't do any good and there are other places experiencing drought. Besides that, sometimes with rain comes the beauty of a rainbow.
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