Gardening During a Drought

I haven't posted many updates on our spring garden.  Mostly because it hasn't been that impressive.  I think we got our plants in the ground too late (should have started in late February instead of March) and then it's just been way too hot for our plants to actually produce much harvest.

We have, however, tried to keep it somewhat alive just in case it decides to start doing something spectacular.  Before we headed to Rockport last week, we decided to invest in a timer and a soaker hose.  They've actually worked quite nicely. 




It's especially helpful that the timer has two separate hose nozzles.  The green hose runs to the raised garden beds and is connected to the soaker hose and the grey hose is used to water our potted patio plants.

We snaked the soaker hose throughout the plants.  It runs for 80 minutes every evening.  That seems to keep the plants happy.

Our tomato plants sure have gotten big.  Too bad we have only gotten a few measly tomatoes out of them all summer.  Our pepper plants have a few peppers on them right now.  Our swiss chard is still managing as well.

Basil is doing great (on the right), along with the mints (on the left.)  The two huge plants in the middle are the eggplants.  We have gotten three eggplants, but unfortunately they ripened too quickly and we never got to eat them.  They have a ton of flowers on them right now though, so we are hopeful to get a few more out of them.

Radar says, "hello."  Or rather, "please rub my tummy."  He is the laziest on Sundays.