Garden Disaster

First, I had no time this year.  My two helpers from last year weren't around, and I was too darned busy, and sometimes really too tired, to put in the attention I needed to.

Then a storm blew down the electrical panel that serviced my pump, taking out my supply of water.

That finished it off.

Still got a lot of potatoes, and radishes, but that was about it.

So,  an old school agricultural disaster this year.

And it starts to really come in.

You can't tell so much from this photo, but with the vast buckets of rain we've been getting, and the interludes of warm weather, the garden is really coming along this year.  It's far head of where it was last year.  Of course, I got it in earlier too.

All the further I've managed to get. . .

between chores and the weather.

After work on May 5.  Put in all the potatoes.  The next day all I did was work around the house on a fencing project.  And the day after that completed that, did some 4H leadership stuff, but did manage to complete the last row.  Found my hooked up hose was broken and that the rainbird type sprinkler, which admittedly left out all winter long, was no longer functioning (I can never get those to last more than one year).

And then it started raining, again.

So, reds, whites and one row of purples.  That's it so far.

Man, it's been wet.

The Garden, 2017

The snow finally melted enough and t he ground dried out enough to use the rototiller.  Of course, we had snow as recently as late last week and not a thing is planted.