Waving the white flag. I cannot justify watering plants when we have gone this long without rain. Like I said in a previous post, we have been watering following the motto of “survive not thrive”, but it still feels like too much. I’ve seen on Next door that there are people in my neighborhood whose wells are dry. Praying for rain.

Her is a last look at things as we go into stage 3 like restrictions, which is no watering at all.

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More flowers and veggies. These veggies are going to get pulled early. Peppers, Armenian Cucumbers, and marigold can take the heat. Eggplant doing good too.

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Flowers: Zinnias and fireworks gomphrena can take the heat but need too much water. Coneflowers are suffering unless they get some water.

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Here are some trees that I wanted to plant this spring: plum, jujubes, Asian pear and fig. I’m glad I did not get around to it, because they surely would have died. I read that if you hill them in, they will not need much water. Hope so.

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One good thing has come from this. I have a better feel for what plants can handle real drought. I plant to make some changes over time so that our garden is more drought tolerant.

Another good thing is that we are now even more committed to getting/using more rain catching.