Rain.. rain.. rain..

Short message today as I could not work in the garden at all. It is bad enough that the ground is still soft from the rains earlier in the week, and the general wet year we have had, but today it has been steadily raining so that even walking out to the garden will compact the soil.

Despite this, I did walk out to the garden and look it over a couple of time today, the second time allowed for one of the joys of a kitchen garden in that I was able to take my neighbor back to the garden to harvest some cilantro for her dinner. While I love growing the vegetables, fruits, and herbs, and certainly I love eating and preserving them, there is a real joy to sharing the produce with neighbors and friends. The bumper crop of cilantro allows me to be very generous without worrying about having enough to put away until it is cool enough here to grow it again.