Pouring here again. I just hope the catch basins don't overflow again. Sigh. It is dark and I can't see what is happening if it does... . and plants in flats could wash away to the road and be trashed.
I simply love the humor here. We have sufficient rain, but good drainage too. Our soil is wet enough, but still okay for planting. The six 55-gallon rain barrels are full. Oh Carolyn, I hope your plants are safe.
So far this month, Indiana has had 8.51", average is 4.58". Year-to-date we've had 24.28", average is 16.93". I swear we're about to be named the next Great Lake lol Toni, I really wish we could send you our rain clouds!
Oh wow..i don't know what's worse..too much rain or too much sun with no rain..we are cooking here in Georgia..was supposed to rain today but I don't think that it will...93 today!!
I agree hummerbum... not sure which is worse. now the slugs are starting to damage plants. they ate a whole row of watermelon and cantaloupe. if it was dry I could at least water those rows. the weeds are starting to be nasty. I can't even get in to scrape them off... it is too wet and we just had another heavy shower this afternoon.
Too much rain happened here in June of 2010, all my baby plants pooled their resources and ordered scuba diving equipment so they could swim to drier ground. I got the first box in late May from Scuba are Us....addressed to Mr. Hy Ssop and had no idea who that was so I left the box on the front porch for the mailman to take back to the Post Office with him the next day. By the next morning the box had disappeared and when I realized that my Hyssop, Salvia and a few other plants were missing later that morning it finally dawned on me what was going on. Too little rain has happened almost every year since then. Each year many of my plants have decided they would rather be compost than live in the heat and dry space that is my garden. My garden looks very empty and forlorn by the end of September each year.
Wow! Multiple weather woes! We have had a great deal of rain too. The ferns are lush (too lush, they are taking over), the rhodies love the cool & the rain...they are blooming madly all over town. I was able to get my vegie garden planted but the seedlings are just sitting there, waiting for some sun. Some were washed away & I have replanted. Let us hope the weather cooperates for a bit.
yep, I got up at midnight to go remove my hanging baskets from the basket racks. I hate for my petunias to get rained on while they are for sale... they are so beautiful this year..
Down in the semi tropical south the anual rain train is a month late but has finally arrived 4 days and over 6 inches and our yard is loving it. This may just be the push our figs needed to finish ripening
My sympathy goes out to the Too Wet and the Too Dry. We have rain a plenty and rain barrels are full, but with good drainage, the garden seems to be growing well. I had a fright when the first Beet seedlings were set out. We had an afternoon "Cloudburst", flattening the wee things. The following day, I took a slender strip of plastic and lifted each beet leaf from the soil. Today they look great.
All of our gardens are raised bed and everything in the yard is lush and thriving the rain only seems to bother me cant mow with standing water and the grass jumps up for joy. It dont take long to get out of control the weeds and such love the rain too.
I went out to the garden to pick a couple cayenne peppers and hadda wear my white rubber boots down here they are referred to as shrimp boots cause they are the favorite footware of fishermen.....Gardeners eeeeeeh not so much.
