Rain, But How Much?

Recent rains caused visions of seed packs to dance in my head as I think about garden real estate, what grows well around here and what I want to eat.

I have what I hope is a well placed rain gauge next to one of my vegetable beds so that I can keep track of local – as local as it gets – precipitation. It’s not like it rains so much around here that I worry about having it overflow, so my usual practice, within reason, is to let rain accumulate from day to day if we are having a rainy spell. Then I just log the amount as having  fallen over whatever number of days it rained.

"Did I ever tell you about the time it rained so hard..."

“Did I ever tell you about the time it rained so hard…”

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