Summer watering

Thank you to all the families who have volunteered to water the garden this summer.  Our week started today, although I did stop by the garden on Friday to water and again on Saturday to mulch.  By Saturday, the rain barrel was completely empty - in fact, it was slowing down so much by Friday that we didn't get a really good water in (and Mr. Nelson wasn't in to help out).   So, after a nice hot weekend, I decided to load up my trunk with water and give everything a deep soaking today.  Lesson:  Always make sure the rain barrel is full going into a hot weekend (or make sure you get the garden watered well beforehand).

While I was in the garden, a white cabbage butterfly came by to check out the verbena.  If you look at the picture carefully, you can see its proboscis sipping nectar.    

Everything is in great shape!