Waiting For The Change

Bunkering down for hopefully the last stinking hot day of the season. (Please, please, please!)
Everything is just so dry here and parts of the garden are resembling a dust bowl. I want to do little more than curl up under a fan, read and wait for the cool change.
I am itching to get stuck into the garden but have to wait for the first rains, before I even contemplate doing anything. The trees are already giving of the hint that Autumn is on it's way and we have had a few day,s here and there, that has hinted at the cold to come.
I have lots of projects I want to try and also lots of planing to do on how to make the garden more water officiant. With only about 10,000 gallons of water to play with during the dryer months, sometimes with no top ups in sight, it can be difficult to hold back on what you want. Instead of concentrating on what you can sustain. It can also get to the point where you have to just let go of all your hard work and give up till next time. Luckily this year things have gone well and we still have water to keep on going.
Before We started trying our hand at growing fruit and veg, I would go into my garden and tell the plants that this was it, they were on their own till the next season and those that did not survive would not be planted again, it's sad but just a fact of life in a dry climate and it is something that we have lived with for a long time.
Now that we are trying to grow edible plants, especially fruit, we have to start thinking of cleverer ways to sustain things.
So that is what the colder months will be for: How much do we plant, where do we plant it and how do we keep it alive through summer.
I still think that the satisfaction of having a garden far outweighs the hardship, life can be a struggle and things do not always go to plan, but that only makes the victories all the sweeter.