It was a typical Missouri summer I guess. We had no significant rain for the month of July and into August. Then we had a toad choker. Then it didn't rain for about three weeks. Then another toad choker, and now it looks to be wet for a while. My trees are so confused by all this they may decide to grow all new leaves. It's going down into the low 40's at night this week, so I suppose Fall is here. Fall and Spring are the two good seasons around here, but they often last only a few days.
I went up to the garden yesterday evening to see what was still alive. There are a few tomatoes still hanging on....quite a few still green. The peppers are still producing. In fact, the cayennes, which barely survived the drought, are now making decent sized fruit. I kept the sweet potatoes alive by watering, but I think the didn't do much until the last couple of weeks, and now the tubers are poking out of the ground. There's a volunteer cucumber on the compost pile that may actually make fruit. I hope so, because most of the cucumbers we had were bitter, due to the drought I guess. At about the end of the drought, I planted all the bean seed I had left, figuring it would be a cover crop even if it didn't make beans. Now, if we don't get frost in the next couple of days, it looks like we'll have Fall beans.
I don't know if this is odd weather or not. I've been in Missouri for 17 years, and I can't think of any two years that were similar for weather. Anyway, it's not boring. We usually have dry spells that make you think the world bill soon dry up and blow away, and then it's time to call Noah for help.
Chuck
