Hey, I'm with you! I've been catching up on housework too, but have donned hat and jacket several times to go out and cut some hydrangeas, do a little mulching and whatever else I could find to do to keep me outside...:)
Why oh why can't we get one good rain a week instead of getting it all at one time and then being in a semi-to full blown drought the rest of the season?
Oh well, I'll keep my hat and jacket handy......:)
Donna

raining in Atlanta too. Have tried to go out several times, but the rain keeps drifting in. Have to be content with being on line and looking at photos in the gallery!

I've lived through too many drought years to complain about rain. I guess I should say that fortunately I've been sick this weekend so I wouldn't be able to be out in the yard anyway. I have to tell you though, I've been known to put on a rain coat and garden in the rain. :)) If I were feeling better, that's probably what I would have done this weekend.

I only wish it would rain here.

We had 1/10" overnight and that was it.

It has been overcast and threatening for most of the day.

Now, the sun has come out and it is hot and humid and muggy.

We really need a good rain. It is dry as dust here.

Good Gardening!

A

actually a good downpour just runs off the soil, a slow steady rain or repeated light rains are better absorbed. I just came back from Lowes and they were dead but the plants were great, this is great plant shopping weather. I also like to mulch/pinestraw in this light kind of rain. I jsut keep thinking about how beautiful everything is going to look in a few days from all of this. (and not even rain can get me to do housework)

I'm with Kathy on this one - what a lovely drizzly day. I ran some errands, stopped by Pike's to get Miss Huff and it was practically empty! Went by HD and got some stain for a wood project.

When it finally stopped raining, I went out and pulled zillions of tiny weeds! Perfect weather for THAT, they came out so easy.

The rest of you have several more days to pull weeds if you didn't get out today ....

Oh, yes. I am very happy today. Nice, cool drizzle. I keep running out and planting more Winter Sown babies, as they should get a few more days of cool weather to establish before heat sets in. How lucky we are to have days like this, this time of year!

GGG

Agreed. I worked for about 2 1/2 hours in the rain today. Perfect weather for gardening, I say. I trimmed back overgrown roses and cut back pansies and finished mulching a shrub border; also was able to transplant a couple of things that were very crowded. I filled up a Pike's recycling paper bag with cuttings and weeds.

Of course I didn't get around to picking up the leaves that my southern magnolia has profusely dropped (to the point where I think it's sick), so you can hardly tell I actually did anything because the leaves make everything look messy dagnabit. :(

The plants thought it was a good day!

Rose

Two cool days in a row, highs of 63 for me both days, which btw is our normal LOW for this time of year! I treasure every cool day I can get when its supposed to be warm. They say rain most of the week, but by Friday and Saturday highs near 90. The official rainfall total was really thin till yesterday, so glad we are making a dent. Didn't try to be outside except to stand on my carport and enjoy watching the rain!

I'm feeling like Charlie Brown here, "All I got was a rock." It ain't rained here. Periods of clouds/cool intermingled with sun/hell-like temps.

Oh, how I wish it would rain here. I've planted my aster off all weekend in hopes it would rain. Time to break out the watering cans again (sigh) . . . .

My absolute favorite sign from another forum "God made rain so gardeners could do their housework!"I ironed. It is damp and chilly, and since I fell in the rain working outside and the results cost the insurance company over $30,000 in bills,I stay indoors when it is wet!!

The rain is starting to get me down. And my tomatoes are down too as a few are bent over.

Unfortunately the stakes are currently in the back of my husband's truck.

Maybe I'll be going to home depot at lunch.

Finally got rain here. Yippee!!!

You know, it could be worse than rain. Anyone remember this from January:

I'll take the rain.....it's a small price to pay when you think what we'd have to go through if we didn't have any: Drought, alternate watering days, scorched flowerbeds & vegetation.

After the rain I give my garden a good old aerating & also pull up as many weeds as possible (they come up like a charm) :- )

Mcrean, I got tickled at you with the "All I got was a rock", ha! Glad you finally got some rain...:) Weren't those ice storms horrible? Our hedge around the driveway in the back took a beating that it won't soon get over...:(

Donna

I think this is a really remarkable rainy spell. It doesn't seem to be running off anywhere like those big downpours that cause me so much grief. The ground just soaks it up when it is slow like it has been. I just hope I can still ammend my soil this weekend for that last bed around the new deck. Hope it's not too soggy. It can stop raining anytime now though. I was the only person at No Longer Bound today. I think they thought anyone crazy enough to be plant shopping today deserves a break and I got some deals. A 2 gal pot of Brunnera for $5! A new white iceplant (do you have that one yet Mike?) don't know the name of it. 3 new Huechera's I think I need every Huechera. I can't stop buying them. I really want Raspberry Ice if anyone sees it please let me know. Well the rain doesn't keep me from buying so my plant ghetto grows and grows.

Nice slow rain here off and on since Monday evening late.

2.20 inches so far. Just a steady, slow rain. No run off.

My veggies are hanging their heads a bit but I think that all will be well.

You can almost hear the veggies growing at the same time the rain is falling.

Wish I had gotten the rest of the tomatoes in the ground on Monday but I haven't built the trellises yet.

Good Gardening!

A

Thursday, and it's still raining...... (I'm tired of housework).

Hey Everybody...

Kathy - I know what you mean about the "plant ghetto". Mine is growing and growing. I've laughed so much since I first heard my pile referred as the "ghetto". Too funny! Went to Wilkerson Mill this afternoon and came home with 3 Penny Mac's, 1 Lady in Red, Yellow Athens Sweetshrub and a Mohawk Viburnum. Now, I've got to get some things planted. The Sun was shining when I got home from work and low and behold...it's raining again. Hard to complain. We'll be wishing for it later. Here's hopeing for a good GARDENING weekend.

Gretagretchen, I'm with you....it's starting to get me down also. I am thankful for it, and I know we needed it, but geeze....enough is enough! My daylilies aren't opening completely because of the cool temps... Plus, I'm tired of housework too...

Okay the extended forcast is showing rain till next Saturday (and that is as far as it goes so the rain might keep going!) When am I going to plant all this stuff-- July? And so of course since I couldn't plant, I went to Scottsdale Farms today. I was good though only bought 4 plants there. But I got a Ligularia which I haven't been able to stop wanting since I saw Sugarhill's house the other day. The grass I sprayed with round up last weekend is still hanging on and with all this rain I am afraid it may make a come back. Too bad I didn't plant one before all this rain, it would ahve loved it.

Ok, started out foggy today with more rain predicted. Not a problem tho as I expect to recieve a number of orchids some of which I plan to keep indoors in a semi-hydroponic media. Two others are terrestrial and I plan to put them outdoors in planters as they cannot take the cold but just love the hot summers outdoors and will bloom indoors in February.
The other orchids (Bletilla) that I picked up at the Pikes sale bench went in outdoors and are loving the rain, one of the Weeping Yuccas that came in as 'weed on the wind' fell over as it had started to open up its flowers on a 8ft stalk.
The Cleome seeds that a friend gave me did not get sown in the bed outside before the rain started as I did not have the soil amended....geesh.
Have to go get those Japanese Maples and Hostas in too...