COgirl
Garden Ornament
My garden was looking pretty good considering late snows, cold temps, cutworms and some minor flooding 2 weeks ago, in fact I just told my DH this am that I thought my one lone brussels sprout (cutworms ate the other 5 
) had doubled in size overnight, 30 bean plants were up and one of my blue hubbard squash plants had gotten its' first true leaf, DH even commented this afternoon when he got home from work that the gardens were really starting to pop. Then 1 hour later the storm hit, torrential rain and hail 
.
Well it is still raining lightly 3 hours later, there is a 20 ft in diameter, 2 1/2 ft deep puddle at the end of the driveway, just came in from checking the gardens . My poor brussels seems to have taken the worst of the hail, and the beets look pretty rough, some of the beans are gone and some of the squash, blue hubbard looked to be ok and the corn looked fair, potatoes and tomatoes are fine thanks to straw mulch on taters and walls of water around maters. I think everything will come back but there is ALOT of water standing in some areas. Rain predicted through the night and storms again tomorrow. Oh well it could have been worse, 5 years ago in Aug we had $10,000.00 in hail damage to our cars and house. I can always replant some seeds if I need to. On the bright side the greenhouse held up with no damage :rainbow-sun
) had doubled in size overnight, 30 bean plants were up and one of my blue hubbard squash plants had gotten its' first true leaf, DH even commented this afternoon when he got home from work that the gardens were really starting to pop. Then 1 hour later the storm hit, torrential rain and hail .Well it is still raining lightly 3 hours later, there is a 20 ft in diameter, 2 1/2 ft deep puddle at the end of the driveway, just came in from checking the gardens
. My poor brussels seems to have taken the worst of the hail, and the beets look pretty rough, some of the beans are gone and some of the squash, blue hubbard looked to be ok and the corn looked fair, potatoes and tomatoes are fine thanks to straw mulch on taters and walls of water around maters. I think everything will come back but there is ALOT of water standing in some areas. Rain predicted through the night and storms again tomorrow. Oh well it could have been worse, 5 years ago in Aug we had $10,000.00 in hail damage to our cars and house. I can always replant some seeds if I need to. On the bright side the greenhouse held up with no damage :rainbow-sun
