Harvest, weed, plant, rinse, repeat

That was the mantra this past weekend.   Saturday was a 14 hour blur of harvest for market, plant for fall and harvest garlic ahead of Sat. night showers.  I finished the day with about 80 feet of garlic bed to harvest.  Rain overnight made prospects dim, but a window of four hours and the help of the Tireless Mrs. M provided the impetus to finish the harvest and get the garlic into the barn.  The subsequent inch and a half of rain would have prevented harvest and probably led to the loss of the garlic, so it was a serendipitous Sunday.  Thunderstorms wiped out the latter part of the afternoon, so nothing new was planted and I hope today's rainy forecast does not live up to predictions.  We have more than enough rain to turn the back gardens into the swamps they were earlier this season.  Better weather is forecast later this week, so we may get back on track.