Yesterday's rain got so intense that it stopped work for for today's plant sale. I went down to Grimsby Beach to see the flooding, and the first picture is the parking lot, with water covering almost all of it. The waves crashed against the shore rocks, overwhelming the pier. The winds whipped up the water turning it brown with the sand. As soon as I lifted the camera, it was plastered with water on the lens.
Today's forecast looks similar to yesterday's. My plant sale may be a 'wash out'. I have posted a rain replacement date of Friday May 26th 3:00 - 6:00pm on the kijiji and craigslist ads. I hope a few people brave the weather today besides me.
We stopped in at Sentimental Farm yesterday and discovered it is their plant sale. You can see on the sign that they are organic growers of vegetables.
There was lots of activity getting all the vegetable plants organized for the event. I was excited to find heritage tomatoes of all varieties and some specialty plants - the tiny melon called mouse melon and the climbing spinach. I saw the spinach at the Kansas Botanical Garden Overland Park a few years ago - a red stemmed climbing edible plant that was exotic and interesting in its appearance. Its latin name is Basella rubra. You can read about it here.
