AFTERMATH.
It's nice to look around and see green, to walk through the yard with a literal bounce to your step as opposed to the hard, crunching thud of the days before the drought ended. The ground is finally wet, we've received 3 1/2 inches over the last week, and we feel incredibly lucky, especially knowing how many others never got that rain. But we also don't know what all the lingering affects of the drought will be. Will we see it in the yields of our corn? Beans? Melons? We already see it elsewhere. We put our peppers in right at the beginning of the drought and they didn't see a rain for over thirty days––many did not survive. The tomatoes are loaded with green fruit and unfortunately some of that fruit has been lost to blossom end rot as well, an affliction tomatoes receive from not enough water (or in other cases, not enough calcium). The garden is actively on the mend, however. We're feeling good and optimistic about a forthcoming bounty. But having started the season late, and having not been able to get our plants in the ground in time to enjoy much of the spring rains (rather modest this year anyway), the drought was especially hard on us and we're still finding it's fingerprints, scattered like a sloppy criminals, all over our soil.Also, we've noticed the drought even messed with our blog, so please forgive us while we clean it up!- Jesse.
