Rain

Finally we are getting some rain today, and yesterday and the day before... before that we had not had any substantial rain in quite a while.  When I turned over the onion bed last weekend, the whole raised bed was totally dry, not the nice moist soil that you would expect to find there in the spring.

This weekend we are expecting several days of rain, I will still be planting some flowers and hopefully get some seeds in the ground to start on their own.  I'm experimenting with starting my own Sweet Anne, but will need to find some good bare spots to get it started in.   I have a good number of flax and climbing black-eyed-Susan seeds to start as well.  I'm a bit late in starting them but they are good for a long time once they get going.

While Mark was recovering from foot surgery our raspberry, blue berry and rose plants came, we put them in with in a few days of arrival.  They came with some cool stuff to mix with water that clings to the roots, it looked like all of the roots little balls of water sacks attached to them.  They all survived planting and are doing quite well regardless of the very dry spring so far.

Currently our wildflower bed is just starting to blossom, some of the white daisies are starting to bloom, they are usually the earliest followed by the Sweet William.  In another garden, the purple lupines are starting to bloom and our three lilac bushes are in full blossom.

Spring in NH and all we need is a bit of rain to keep it going.  No floods please, just enough and then some more sunshine in between.