I am very pleased that my garden is getting some rain. Usually, I get excited too soon after it starts raining. The rain doesn't usually last but a few minutes in this part of the city. But this week, the rain has been worthwhile, so I haven't been able to use my new watering wand much. That is fine with me. I like having more time to do other stuff, especially in the evenings. I think I might even bake a cake tonight.
@Newyorkrita I am making room for watermelon. Last year, the melon vines were all over and spreading outside the melon bed. This year the roommate made the bed bigger, but I am also going to try growing the small melons, cantaloupe, and squash vertically. The vines of the big melons will be allowed to spread on the ground. But I will be spending a lot of time making sure the others grow vertically. I will be using cattle fencing and pvc. We had the fencing left over from the roommate putting a fence around my 3 main growing beds. There wasn't enough to go around the melon patch. But there should be enough to make a couple trellises. The spaghetti squash and butternut squash will also be growing vertically, but using different fencing if we can't get more at a good price.
I was planning to work on my map of my growing beds this evening, but the rain is keeping me from getting measurements. Especially of the melon patch, which I never wrote down the rough measurements we took as we were getting the melon patch ready. And I lost the rough draft of my other beds because I kept procrastinating doing the revisions. We were not able to do all we planned at once, as we could only make changes each month after we got paid and all the bills were paid. I worried the melon patch would grow too quickly and we wouldn't have the trellises built. Without much rain here, that didn't happen. Now that we are only days away from getting the materials, we are getting a lot of rain.
It won't be a tragedy if we don't get the materials for the trellises, but we are expecting better harvests with the trellises. I also have other stuff planted and/or planned for the melon patch, but they will fail if they get overrun with melon vines.
