Cool mornings

Although warmer weather is predicted, it is in the low 50s this morning and it feels like fall.  I still have a couple more plantings of lettuce, bok choy and nappa cabbage, and it's time for planting spinach to overwinter.   But the end of the season is in sight.  As anyone reading this blog knows, it has been a very wet summer here on the NCR and many of the summer crops have suffered due to excessively wet soil.  Now, the opposite is happening.  We have had very little rain for the past 2 weeks and none is predicted over the next 10 days.  There is still abundant soil moisture, but the root systems are all in the top few inches of soil and can't readily move to where the water is.  The bottom line, we need rain again, or the a lot of planting and weeding will have been in vain.  Of course, I'll continue the fight.   Wet or dry, the foolishness continues.