A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Food Garden Forum After the rain.......

We had a torrential rain yesterday. It buried my carrots in mud that washed away from my potato mounds leaving roots exposed. My squash was knocked flat - wilted? My herbs and beets were crushed. I got to see my second batch of salad germinating first hand. Everything else was old enough that it was ok. It was a bad day for gardening here in MI!!

I got right back to work. Uncovering carrots and covering the roots back up. Things looked better today.

I hope I did the right things. My garden was doing perfect up until yesterday. I guess that is why they call it gardening and not shopping for produce grown in Brazil

Sounds like you have things under control, frustrating though isn't it?

If I ever had a good gardening season I'd be shocked

We had a nice gentle rain from about 5 pm till dark. I was was sweating it , just planted seeds yesterday

We need some rain after that hot wk we just had but not the gully washers that move your stuff to the next yard

Looks to be a nice moist wk ahead...rain on and off every other day.

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Tamara it was very frustrating!!! I am a firm believer in the if it dont kill ya it makes ya stronger (or smarter) philosophy

Sounds like us on the west got the brunt of it. We got about 5" in about 2 hours. We are supposed to have another storm tomorrow. Snow you are in the Detroit area?? I planted 2nd batch of peas and beans yesterday ( I germinated them inside which worked well. They did not get uncovered - I hope they didnt wash away.

Flint area..
They did get some nasty stuff up by midland/saginaw area , heavy rain with flooding and down trees.

We were watching the west side as it was coming in , they did get hammered out that way.

Hope these ones this wk are not down pours and just some nice rain for the gardens....atleast it will be cooler ...after last wk I could use some SNOW! , Just finished a deck job in that 90 degree blistering heat .

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It's been raining steady here..it's a fight to get the grass cut.

We only plant our gardens here the middle of June, one good thing is the rain has been keeping the frost away.

Hi Tamara Whats the temps been like?? When do you harvest?? NB is North West??

The temps have been cool, highs of 60*F..we harvest in late fall(well we try too)
Our garden season only runs from the middle of June into August(and that's in a good year )

NB is in the North East along the Atlantic ocean, part of the maritimes with PEI, NFLD and NS.

New Brunswick?? (sp??) Not that familiar with Canada - I could check a map - but eh

Good fishing up there??

Today we had a "sane" rain all afternoon. Kinda curious what the garden looks like today

Great fishing

there is good fishing on longisland and when we heavy rains our garden grow bigger.

so your from NY?? I have seen a lot of good shows there!! What are you growing this year?

I know have the lettuce I planted the day before the storm sprouting every where in my garden. Thats ok it eats the same as if it were in nice neat rows.