Despite sprinkles, watering was done

The wind prefaces some spotty rain around the county. We got sprinkles but nothing heavy and the cloud cover is keeping things humid and in the 70's so far. Prediction says 80 today so here's hoping we can keep the windows and door open as long as possible and just have fans running.

On my walk yesterday a beautiful yucca in flower and had to get a picture of the stem because it was just gorgeous structurally framed by the leaves.

That rose bush is still putting out flowers! I need to find out what the name is, just out of professional curiosity.

Flowers around the garden I guess is the theme today. Sunflower is still hanging in there, I don't know when to cut it for the seeds so will just wait until it turns brown. The zinnia is a lovely color even though it's small. Will try to plant those again next spring depending on the bed availability.

Funny enough, that isn't a small green leaf next to the flowers on the cucumber, it's a parrot feather. It was under leaves as well so the wind carried it there from the flock last night. One of the last roses blooming, still want to say Mardi Gras so that's what it is.

 

So I watered as well as I could. The bed was bone try so I was spraying and spraying for a good minute or so then scraped the soil and it had only gone down maybe a half inch. Hooboy. So after about twenty minutes of watering that bed and the west bed I finally had to call it quits. That flooding is from the break in the hose. It's ridiculous and damaging. In my garden shoes I can't walk on that mud as I have no traction at all. I had to leave the cultivator over there until that dried out. 

 

The blue bag is bark that Dolores left for me. Will have to hold off on that until I get things situated for the next season. It's not much really and might use it over in the west bed because that one is the smaller that would need it.

 

Finally, cucumber, tomato and ham salad from my garden veggies. The cucumber is not dry but is very solid and not soft/gelatinous around the seeds. Still tasted like a cucumber and wasn't bitter at all so I'm good with that. Will do that again today to go with jalapeño tuna patties for lunch.

Yay! Super happy about having things I can eat from my garden. Just wish I could grow some meat.