Thank you, Lord, for the Delicious Rain!

Just when we decided to pull the plug on watering our church garden the Lord provided a good, strong, and life-giving rain during the night. How thankful we can be!

And, what a delicious outcome. Because of high night time temperatures and no rainfall plant blossoms were unable to set fruit, and what fruit we got was puny, squishy, and not very nice. But look at the ugly babies in the picture above (picked earlier in the year)and imagine them in the cooking pot or on our salads! Last night's rain will give us at least a couple more weeks harvest.

Yes, it has been a good year for tomatoes. We've supplied tomatoes for the Senior Center, invited the neighborhood in (they have taken up our offers to pick freely), and even had a few left over to provide on Sunday morning and once in a while at Loaves and Fishes. We feel blessed.

We also feel inspired to get going with our fall planting. It is going to be terrific and we're optimistic about supplying everyone with sweet potatoes for our Thanksgiving dinners. God is Good all the time!

Down...but not out!

It is time for us to stop watering the garden. There is no way that we can sensibly keep ahead of the drought. what happens next is tearing out many of the plants--like the tomatoes--and then some diligent weeding. This will occur over the next several weeks.

In the mean time we do need to start watering the trees and shrubs around the church yard; they are in tough shape and in danger of dying after two plus years of dry weather. If we get some sufficient rain in the next few weeks we'll start putting in some fall plants. Anyway, if you want some green tomatoes now is the time to get them.