I harvested today tomatoes, snap-peas, lettuce and courgettes. Even after the odd day of rain the garden was so dry that I decided to 'tip and twirl' a rainstick which came from New Zealand. On searching the internet I find it is actually traditionally from Chile. I found this link if you would like to make a rainstick.
It seems to have done the trick, it is now raining wetly and forecast to continue for at least another day.
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Rainsticks are fun! (Don't have one, but sometimes wish I did... I love the noise they make.)
Do you get a lot of rain in Scotland during Summer? I'm sure I've asked that before, sorry! Here in Fall/Winter/Spring we may complain about it all the time, but in Summer we get desperate for it!
Aha - so it's YOUR fault we've had some pretty heavy showers here in Devon today...
I had to google courgette. Oh, it's a zucchini. I think courgette sounds better though.
It's so interesting how all of us speak English but have different words for the same thing. Fun.
That'd be great, especially if you could also make it stop when you wanted it to :)
Wildside, usually the rain is pretty consistent and this is the driest , hottest summer I remember, I havent always had a garden to worry about though so I maybe I am wrong.
Tutleymutley, you will thank me for the rain when you have a veggy garden.
Granny, actually the variety I have is called Black Zuccini, very nice dark green skin and lovely fresh in salads.
Kerri, ah its stopped today to allow some weeking but I hope it starts up again, too dry!
Love all the new pictures, particularly the honeybees! They only live about 6 weeks but in that time they do so much good. And the butterfly picture is stunning.
Peggy
What fun! We used to make them with a grade 1 class I helped out in. Quite a soothing sound, actually.
My kids and I LOVE to make rainsticks and decorate them. I love to see how the kids decorate them all so uniquely and differently. We have not made any in a year or two, thanks for the reminder!
Wish we were getting more rain here also. Maybe we better get cracking on making those sticks:)
Peggy, thankyou, I didn't realise bees were so short lived, I wonder how they make it through the winter here?
Michael, I like the sound they make, kids always seem to love it too.
Lowa, that would make a nice post, all your decorated sticks, mine is just plain cactus.
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