The carrots, scallions, and dill are now chilling in vacuum-sealed bags in the freezer! Yippee!

I left the one dill plant most likely to produce a proper head of seeds unmolested, and instead of pulling up the others, I just cut them back (leaving a few leaves) to see if they will grow again. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. Doesn’t matter, as I have enough dill for a year stashed in the freezer already.

The most enjoyable aspect of this morning is the fact it started raining a few minutes after my last post, and there’s been a nice slow rain going for over an hour. I have the windows open, and it feels so good. Also the smells in the house right now are wonderful!

The weirdest thing about this morning was the appearance of hundreds, if not thousands, of mayflies. When the rain let up for a moment, they rose from our yard like a cloud. The cats went crazy trying to bust through the window screens to get to them, and the birds descended and had themselves a nice lunch … which only added to the insanity level of the cats. It was strange walking out to the garden to get the dill amidst all the bugs and birds. Strange and weird, but sort of neat!

When the rain lets up again, I’ll be going out to pull up the cucumbers. Since it’s likely to be cooler today and the beans are blooming, I’ll leave them be long enough to see if any beans set, but I better see some beans in the next two days, or away they go too. Then the only thing left in Bed One will be the marigolds and one lonely okra plant with one lonely pod on it I am allowing to dry for seed … and the dill plants.

I think while the soil is moist (wet) today, I’ll pull up the Early Girl tomato plant. I cut it back when it stopped blooming, and it hasn’t shown any plan to grow any new leaves. It gave us some pounds of tomatoes already, so I’m willing to let it go gently into that good night. I’m also debating pulling up the Better Boy as well. It has two small tomatoes on it that have been sitting there not growing or changing color for weeks and weeks. It also doesn’t seem to be blooming anymore. I think it’s time has come. Maybe I’ll leave it for the birds, since they seem to fancy the Better Boys best of all. Might make them leave the rest of my tomatoes alone!

Aaah. Rain, lower temperatures, and good work done in the garden. Today, so far, has been a very good day.