Considering that our gardens weren't able to be watered for 16 days, we got scant rain in that time and it's been a heatwave kinda summer so far...they're doing amazing! Yes we had some crops die and some that were planted soon before the well problem never took off but a lot of the garden produce coped with no water quite well. It was very hard to see the gardens getting drier and drier and I don't know they could have taken much more. Today we have the well water back and I gave things a good watering. Tomorrow some rain is in the forecast I think the gardens have had a good save there, water just in time.
Harvest totals so far:
Strawberries- 6 pounds, eaten fresh and made into jams.
Rhubarb- 5 plus pounds made into pies.
Kale- several good bunches used in stir fry and soup etc. Some also given to lizards, rabbits and poultry.
Collards- a couple big bunches used in cooking and fed to bearded dragons, rabbits, birds.
Cherries- About 3 pounds mostly eaten fresh.
Blueberries, About 2 pounds so far eaten fresh and some planned for pancakes.
Tomatoes-1 whopper eaten fresh
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