Gardens love the rain, too.

The garden this year.
Hopefully it will be epic.
Or something awesome, at least.
Two Saturdays ago, we prepared the garden.  It was all chopped up and turned over- the dirt was like sugar.
So stakes and markers went it, hopes are always that there is enough room to get to things once all the plants suddenly become ENORMOUS.

The guys moving some dirt around.

So this most recent Saturday, we went up and started to plant- Hoping to make it just before the rain.  

It worked.  We watered all of the plants, because, just like if you wash your car it Does rain, if we didn't water the plants, it wouldn't rain...  Funny how that works.  (Even though it is a huge storm system, I swear the rain would have at least been delayed over us!)

Tomatoes, sweet peppers, lettuce, onions, carrots, radishes and squash went in.  

Some of their soon to be neighbors are still growing in little cups in my studio, and others haven't been purchased yet.  

We finished up at the garden and had plenty of time to spare before the rain came, but it did, and it was accompanied by some great flashes of lightening followed by claps of thunder.  

The rain continues here while other areas are promised snow.  There is a tinge of jealousy from me about that.  I know it's getting late, but I have seen snow in May (8 hours north of here, but hey) and there is something magical about snow.  

Maybe next winter.  

I am excited.  

But for now, I will tend to my garden with the help of some wonderful friends, and enjoy the fruits of our labors.