too wet but tilled garden anyway

[seedcorn]

Have to be gone for few days, tomatoes getting too large to keep so they had to be planted. Tilled this AM, garden way too wet but did it anyway. Anyone else finding themselves planting into wet soils? I will survive it because I'm on sand but if it were clay, I'd have pottery for a garden.

 

[lesa]

Isn't it funny- last year it rained and rained - this year my garden is dry and no rain in the forecast! Mother nature always keeps you guessing! Good luck with your tomatoes- mine are going in this week!

 

[Southern Gardener]

Dry as a bone here and no rain in the forecast. I'll be watering this week.

 

[Lavender2]

We had an odd Spring too ... April flowers brought May showers ...
Five days of rain was badly needed after a very dry April... and only one frost to speak of, at least in my yard.
I probably could have planted much earlier :/
I don't till often, and not this year. Tomatoes, peppers, cukes, beans went in a wet ground on Sunday. Monday it hit 91 F. and the WIND... ... and the threat of severe storms ...
It will be survival of the fittest out there again! I got tired of 'baby sitting' ...row

 

[curly_kate]

We were inundated until this week. We tilled early, so it was fairly dry then, but it took a lot of waiting before I got everything in. Now it's hot & dry. I'm going to be watering, too, this week.

 

[wifezilla]

In Colorado, we ALWAYS water

 

[journey11]

My neighbor mudded in her tomatoes about a week or so ago. I repotted mine into cottage cheese containers with holes drilled in the bottom. They've been hanging out on the back deck and have really greened up and grown nicely, no blooms on them, so they are not root bound. I think we are dried out enough to till this evening and conveniently enough my MIL is coming over to play with the toddler. So I will try to get *everything* that still remains to be planted in this evening.

Last year the rain kept me out of the garden too and we planted the day before Memorial day (frantically, ahead of another bout of heavy rain), so I am still a little bit ahead of the curve this year, although not as early as my last frost date would have allowed. I know they'll catch up. IME, with my red clay mud here, I know better than to step foot in the garden until it has dried out some.

It is so hard to wait and I hate that anxious feeling of being behind schedule. I will be relieved to git 'er done tonight! At least I had a little foresight not to get my meat chickens in early spring. NOT FUN when processing time and planting time coincide. Nearly gave myself a panic attack last year....ha.

:tools

 

[GrowsLotsaPeppers]

It's raining here again today, and expected tomorrow, and Thursday, too. Normally, we get our last real rain for the season in mid- to late-April. And plant tomatoes 1 May or so.

Mine went in in mid-March, when we had some time and a dry week. They are doing very well, 24" tall and strong. We still won't harvest until the first week of July, however. It hasn't been warm enough. But the plants are sturdy and healthy, and, at 160%+ of our rain this season, we can water them and the roses, too.

Our drip system is on a timer, so it isn't smart enough to know when to water. Good thing my wife remembers each morning to check.

 

[seedcorn]

Those of you dry......wish I could send some rain to you. Places got 6" last weekend and they are calling for more this weekend...........

At least they are in. What's worse some areas because of all the cold/rain have huge slug problems........

Probably in July/August I will be praying for rain.

 

[dickiebird]

This place is wet also. I had most things planted with my money crop being tomatoes, 48 plants total.
Well most of them look drowned but I hate to give up on them yet, so I tilled up another area and got about 20 more mudded in yesterday....what a mess...just about killed me.
I wanted to put about that many more in today, just couldn't. Maybe tomorrow.
I still have a hundred or so in the greenhouse with everyone of them looking better than the poor drowned, first planted ones.
OH well like others have said it won't be long and we'll be wishing we had this moisture.

THANX RICH