Much Needed Rain!

Here, we have a section of our plants covered in plastic sheeting
right before the big rain storm last week! Worked very well for
our plants. It prevented the heavy winds from knocking over and
flooding out our plants, as well as create a greenhouse effect
that our plants loved.

     It's about time we let you all in on an update! So, lately there has been quite a bit of rain, but we're not complaining - with a drought and all, we need all the rain we can get at this point, that's for sure.
    Our plants seemed to love the storm last week, even though we moved most of our shelves into a covered area or into our greenhouse. We also covered some of our plants with thick, plastic sheeting, which by the way did a fantastic job with protecting our plants, especially our seedlings. More showers last night and very early this morning, but all is great with our plants! The rain, if anything, is certainly helping more than hurting.

Wow, look at that rain! Beautiful. Our plants were enjoying the
weather!

Our wildflowers have tripled in size! We planted them in about February
of this year, they began to die off from the heat of the summer, and now as
it's getting colder, they're growing more and more each and every day! We
 are so glad they made a quick (very quick) return, thanks especially to the
rain and cooler weather.

The new wildflowers we planted approximately three or four weeks
ago are growing at a faster and faster pace, even more than ever after
the rain! We were fearful the smaller seedlings would possibly be
flooded out, but these strong plants had no trouble at all!

Okay, enough with the rain. Now we have an update on our gorgeous
pansies! It looks like our pansies are about halfway until "selling
size." We are waiting until these beauties bloom before they appear
at the Farmers' Market, but boy, when they do, we will have many,
many pansies for sell, mark our word!

And lastly, we'll let you in on our cilantro plants. These babies are
growing like weeds in this cool weather! We have well over thirty
cilantro plants ready to be sold, and that's not even including all of
the seedlings. We just have to be careful to cover these plants once,
and if, the frost hits as they cannot tolerate too, too much frost or
extreme cold, but they do love mild temperatures; it sure shows in
their growth!