My Thursday harvest this week was starting to be pretty trying–it had pounded rain the night before so the flowers are wet, the weatherman said no more showers likely-ha! So I was harvesting those things that the sun had already started to work on and would dry-out in the bucket OK- mid-morning I haven’t begun to do zinnias or celosias- our 2 main crops and clouds start to gather in the sky. My dilemma- do I begin harvesting almost dry flowers before that get rained on again or chance that it’s not going to rain- this may sound silly to you, but when you have over a couple thousand stems that will have to be dried (fewer in a bucket for good circulation) it creates a lot more work.
I was totally stressed until the hummingbirds and goldfinches joined me in the zinnia patch. Does a job get any better than this? The hummers actually came to the flowers bunched in my hand-The boulders rolled off my shoulders and I got busy with my harvesting- it didn’t rain and I had a bumper load of dry flowers. I was pooped- because of all the fretting I did- which goes to show you it just does pay to get your breeches in a knot.
Enjoy your garden even when the weather doesn’t seen right-
Lisa