Good morning! Welcome to #WeekendCoffeeShare, thank you for meeting me in the garden on this Saturday morning but don’t get too comfortable, it can rain at any moment.

If there’s a word to describe the weather this year, it would be turbulent, emotional, and childish. Every day, the sky would be blue and beautiful, with a few clouds, and then, all of a sudden, the blue sky would be covered in grey clouds. Worst of all, it would be accompanied by wind.

Oh my goodness, I hate the wind. It would whip everything sideway, including my poor apple tree in the front yard, which before I added an extra stake and secured it with probably more garden tapes than necessary, I was watching it go sideways, fearing for my life that its trunk would snap and the tree would be gone.

Why do the rainstorms here have to come with this 🤬 wind?

It’s so damaging to the plants. It dries them out completely, which causes the leaves to wilt and it frustrates me because I can’t go out and water them right away as there’s always a chance for rain. About 60% to 70% of the time, rain doesn’t come and about 99% of the time, the rain only lasted about 5 minutes, which isn’t nearly enough water to satiate the plants.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you my garden is finally fully on drip irrigation. Prior to my trip to the UK in the middle of May, I had to shut down part of the system because it wasn’t working right. After at last getting to go to Home Depot (home improvement store) to scour for parts, I spent last night reconnecting the system. It’s still not perfect, some of the plants are still being neglected but I feel it’s 80% more efficient than having to drag the hose across the garden to water the plants along the fence.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you I spent last night pulling out the spring flowers. They were goners when the temperatures exceeded 75-degrees-Fahrenheit and became incredibly done when the wind and blew their petals to who knows where. When I pulled them out last night, they were just stems. I don’t know if you notice, tulips without it petals are an eye-sore. Now that I’ve pulled them out, I can commence in sowing seeds for summer flowers.

It won’t be my first sowing of flowers. I sowed quite a bit of seeds on the first day of May but nothing came up other than a few sunflowers and a zinnia. The dang wind destroyed one of my sunflowers a few days ago.

I most definitely saved the best for last. Check out these strawberries! I have been harvesting a small bowl of strawberries each day this week. I’m still learning to tell when it’s the perfect time to pick them. They are a bit small, compared to the ones at the grocery store, and some are a bit on the tart side but they are as fresh as can be.

I went to the store yesterday and saw a pound of strawberries for $0.98 but they were either moldy or bruised. Uh, no thanks, I’d rather have the ones in my backyard.

#weekendcoffeeshare is hosted by Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. I appreciate you stopping by. Until next we chat. 🙂