Waiting

Will we or won't we get it (rain, that is)? Earlier this month we had nearly a week straight of rain, we've now had nearly a week with no rain, so HG spent the morning watering the garden...when suddenly the clouds covered the sun, and the sky to our north darkened alarmingly.  It's like washing the car is a sure way to bring on the rain, better than an Indian rain dance.  We quickly shut the roof windows and decided to see a movie.  It's now early evening and still no rain, so it was a good thing he decided to water.  

The plants are coming along beautifully now: the beans are up, and each day a new shoot appears in the asparagus beds.  That's a new plant for HG; for some reason, he had never grown it before.  I guess the 4-year wait for the harvest seemed either too daunting or too much space to devote, or maybe it was the fact that we really didn't know how to cook it! But this year he took the plunge and invested some of his garden to asparagus.  So, maybe this year we'll have enough for a meal.  By the way, he did learn to cook it and it was delicious: very different from the olive-green stringy and tasteless stuff I remember from grocery store cans.

We also had 2 more cold nights and frosty mornings this week, so HG had to cover all the plants again!  Unfortunately I missed the whole process, as it happened on days when I had to leave early for work - after scraping my car windows in May - and HG was enjoying vacation days.  The good news is that everything survived except for some beautiful basil (Pesto Perpetuo from Burpee's) which he had in a planter box on our deck.  Really too bad, because even as a tiny plant it smelled delicious.