I wish you could too.
We had an extremely dry spring. I don't know the measurements from before May, but I do remember Dave and I walking through the pastures in March and April and everything was crunchy. We wondered how we were going to have hay if we didn't get rain.
From May until today, we've had just over 1/2" of rain. I was looking at a video last night of last summer when we bailed a big lot of hay in July (second cutting). We haven't had a first cutting- no one here has. It was strange to see our pastures green and lush from last July. There's hardly anything alive out there now.
We've irrigated the veggie gardens, but still lost just about everything that we planted after June. The flower gardens were all new this spring, and were just too small to survive the stress. I have about half of everything that was planted. Even the cactus garden has lost about half!
It hasn't been a good year for the gardeners or farmers.
I'm going to take pictures here soon and post them to my blog. I haven't until now because I hate even looking at it.
One thing about gardeners, though...we're always optimistic!
