Stormy Weather
The last few weeks have been a nightmare in the garden....30" of rain fell in 48 hours and then it's rained every other day since. Our garden has never had any problems with drainage before.....but it just couldn't handle that much that fast.......so this weeks garden update will not contain a breathtaking photo.....instead I'm gonna keep it real and share our devastation.............Mud past your ankles, wilted tomatoes and an opportunity to teach our boys more than just gardening......
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| My husband has worked very hard on our garden this year....he was sick when he saw 20 of his beautiful tomato plants wilted and dying. As soon as the rain let up we all put on our sock monkey boots and grabbed our shovels and went to work digging a trench to let all the water run out of the garden. And there was no fighting or complaining we actually enjoyed ourselves. I hope that my boys learned a lesson from their Dad..... about not getting angry when things don't go your way........ and to just get to work fixing it....because that's all you can do. Our tomatoes have some kind of wilt disease ...the cure....yank 'em out and replant. And since its to late to be planting here, we'll just have to plant more in the fall. We were only able to save 2 plants, they were the Better Boy variety. I'll be noting that for next year ...to plant more better boys. We had to pick all the other tomatoes green...so look for my post on "Fried Green Tomatoes" coming soon. |
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| That's my son I affectionately refer to him as Hoss (you know Hoss Cartright from Bananza the TV show.) He refuses to be photographed for fear I'll post his picture, so we have all these pictures of him with things in front of his face...like Wilson from Home Improvement....... Despite it all everything else seems to be ok....In fact the squash is Jurassic and I should be canning pickles in a week or two. Thank the Good Lord it didn't all wash away! In the next gardening post we'll be showing you how to put in a french drain. If you'd like to see how great everything looked before the flood click here. "Summer Gardening Part 2" |
I do so feel your agony. Before we moved, the last year it rained so much every tomato and pepper plant had to be tossed. Sad but true.
ReplyDeleteOh bless your souls! I know just how you feel, we experienced flooding conditions 2 years ago. It was so devastating we couldn't put ourselves through it again so we took last year off! A year off from gardening did us both good. This year the weather has been kinder and we are appreciative of every green thriving leaf!! I just love your attitude! Keep your spirits up, gratitude always prevails! Love this post...can't wait to see some pickles!!
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear about your garden, that is a lot of rain in a short time! Glad you didn't loose everthing and youmkept your hu
ReplyDeleteSame thing here but we only had like 8 tomatoes planted and our squash is huge now too. Good luck for the rest of the summer.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry for you guys! It's amazing what God can use grow us. I believe your boys will look back on this and remember the patience of their daddy. In the future if you need to pull tomatoes plants early, you can pull the whole plant and hang upside down out of the direct sun and the tomoatoes will ripen quicker.
ReplyDeleteOh! My fingers are crossed that everything survived.
ReplyDeleteUgh, so sorry to hear about the flooding. Sometimes there's just too much rain and no matter how awesome your drainage system is, it's just not going to work. :-( But it's definitely a great lesson to learn in dealing with the unexpected, and I'm glad you shared that with your kids and with us at The Fun In Functional. Thanks for linking up!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain. I had a similar nightmare earlier this spring. Two days after I transplanted my delicate little seedlings we had a massive hail storm. :(
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woow....that is rainy :)
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That's a lot of rain! Sure plays havoc on a garden, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteLove the picture of Hoss, your son ;0)My kiddos do the same thing with putting sometime in front for fear that they might be plastered in a blog post-lol
Just last month we did a french drain too. We're doing some landscaping in the yard and learned the hard way after a down-pour that the french drain was a Must.
God Bless you all and your gardening and the lesson's the kids are learning by your good example.
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