Dried Up In One Day

With the exception of lunch and sympathy with my beowabbit, yesterday was a pretty awful day, and it got worse when I got home. To my horror, almost all of my vegetable plants had, in 1 day, wilted to almost dead. I'd checked the soil in the morning and it felt perfectly moist -- I'd watered them the day before and it had rained that night.

But somehow, the giant plants had soaked up their water and their soil had dried up in just that short time. I was heartbroken. About 10 gallons of water later, I was able to revive the plants themselves, but much of the young fruit was dried up and dead. Those baby cukes I posted about...yeah. There are a few-ish left, but I don't even know if the plants will re-fruit.

And the sad part is that I have no way of ensuring that it won't happen again. Maybe this just isn't the right hobby for someone who can't be at home in the daytime.

:-(