The early Kandy Korn is tasseling. The late corn is stunted. DH went to town today and met the water meter reader at the county road. He asked, "Do you have a leak?" To which DH replied. "No, I checked it a couple days ago. But we've been running soaker hoses all day for a while." "Well, that explains why your meter is spinning." This water system doesn't serve the house which is on a well, so the meter reader gets used to seeing very low numbers during the winter. He had meter shock now; we'll get it in a week when the bill comes.

But every single hose is now covered with leaves. The okra was the latest to get covered as DH did it today. The okra is slow too with not enough water.

We're not going to water any more early stuff. The peas, potatoes, beets, cabbage got some yesterday and today and that's all they get this year. Time to focus on the warm season stuff. And after the corn comes out a lot of the water will go to the permanent stuff: blueberries, strawberries, young fruit trees in addition to the tomatoes, peppers (May pull 1/2 of them if we don't get rain, cucumbers, okra, squash, sweet potatoes. And the cucumbers and squash won't last all summer either.