Never thought I would say

Rain Rain go away

My tomato plants are too wet and now are wilting.
It has rained for 11 straight days. Flash showers mostly and lots of sunny days. So wet plants then heat not good. GRRRRRR

It did not do like this last year.
Lavina

Ahhhhhhh send it my way. I could watch Savannah get hit with 2+ inches last night and we got maybe a quarter inch. Been that way for weeks, raining all around us even to the point where I could see the rain falling but I was standing in the sun.

Core, I feel your pain. Same here. Watch lightening storms every night. Not forty miles away they have record water fall. Us--nothing!! Everything scorching.

There was a tornado spotted in your area earlier Corey; did you get any rain? We have had some rain every day along with the heat. This afternoon we got about 6/10". It might have been more but the wind was so bad the rain was flying horizontally.

Same for us G-violet. Or, at least, for my house. Rain, rain everywhere, but when I dig my soil its dry, dry, dry.

Yes we got a good amount of rain but I was on Hilton Head when the tornado was out in Bluffton.

I hear ya, yote...I was saying the same thing about the beds under the pine trees...Lots of rain, but dry soil under there. I finally collected enough rainwater to soak those beds good. I think that once that was done that the rain that followed had a better chance. 'Course I probably should have come in a bit sooner when it started to thunder. The dog had enough good sense to go in the house!

Yea, B, but the dog isn't a gardener, is he? I've got some tree guys out looking at my big tree's roots today. They have to remove all the soil around them, and the intent is to blow it away with pressurized air. Needless to say, even with that, the soil is not giving way easily. Just too dry and hard. Don't you sometimes wonder how all the wild/natural plants do it?

Nope, the dog is a chicken, lol! Are you having the tree removed or root pruned? We need to do lunch next week sometime...maybe sometime when it's not raining? LOL!

I am tired of the rain to and so is Rusty

Awww! Can't blame a guy for wanting to go outside, lol! Cute:)

Tgg--here's my tree (scroll down through the thread and there is a pic). Its becoming a huge expense, but you can see why I care about it. Its not looking too good for it, though. What will I do with all my shade plants when it goes????????

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1013743/

Wow! That's a lotta tree to come down! Looks like you'll be digging gardens over near the property line over there...Look at it this way, at least you'll have plenty of mulch! Can't say I envy you trying to relocate everything.

I'm not laughing, Tgg. One, because you aren't funny (and I'm not sharing my mulch!!! Tee hee hee hee), and two, because--gasp--I'm sitting here reading the bill from the arborist. And I haven't even had anything done yet to help the tree--this bill is just for the diagnoses. And to think this tree was one of the reasons I liked this house. WHAT WAS I THINKING?

That is a wonderful tree and I would have a hard time making the decision to deal with it. Good luck.

We had still another 1 3/4" of rain last night. It has been coming down so hard that a lot of the trash from the re-modeling last year is coming to the surface. I am finding nails and broken pieces of tile every day now. No sense in putting more mulch down, it all floats away. Worst part is the mosquitoes; when you have to apply Deet just to go out to the curb and pick up the newspaper in the morning you know you are in trouble.

I got 2 inches of rain in an hour and a half.

I had to cut down a big (though not nearly as big as yours) tree in my front yard. I was sad to lose it, but it opened up a whole new avenue because of more light.

A bit of advice when you do have it cut down and if you are going to have them grind down the stump. Make sure they leave a mound of dirt at the site or you will have a deep crater where it was in about a year and have to spend a lot of money to fill it up. It took about a year and a half for my mound of dirt to finally pack down.

I spent a good 6 months raking up stump chips/mulch left by the grinder after each rain. You'll want to pile it up somewhere and let it "cook" for a year before you use it.

X

I don't let it sit at all, the fresh mulch is wonderful for my garden. I can't tell you how many worms I have since I started getting the tree guys to dump it for me. You used to hear a lot about how fresh wood uses up all the nitrogen while it breaks down but it will only use nitrogen if you mix it into the soil. If you just leave it on top it is fine and breaks down quickly into wonderful compost. A friend with an award winning garden is a glutton for punishment. She is close to 70 and she spreads about 2 dump truck loads of fresh mulch every month, year round.

Didn't know that! Now I do.

X

The stuff you buy in a bag at the big boxes never seems to break down, it is so dried out. Try some of the fresh X; if they are taking down any trees in your neighborhood they will dump it for free. I put down about a 6' layer winter and it is gone, completely broken down already. I desperately need more but it is too hot to spread it right now.

That's interesting about the mulch. I got a free load last year (a gardener's dream--the guy was driving around the neighborhood asking who wanted it so he didn't have to pay to dump it). I did compost it quite awhile before I used it. I'm sure my neighbors wished I had known I didn't have to, as I'm sure they got sick of looking at my pile!

Gosh, Tgg--can you imagine how much mulch I could get from my tree?? And no place to store it! Guess I'll have to give it away if the old girl has to come down. You can start sucking up to me now if you want some!!!

Ardesia--here's my stump grinding story. When we moved in 4-5 years ago, the previous owner had cleared almost all the backyard to put an addition on the house. I was worried about all the stumps with kids running around, so had them all ground out. One of the "stumps" was really not much more that some 2-3 inch stalks joined all together in an area about 2 feet across. I assumed a large shrub was there previously, but ask the guy to grind it too, as I wanted to put a raised bed in the area. He did, I did, and just this past year long branches started emerging in that spot even though he had ground away and I had dumped about 18 inches of soil on top. Voila!! Instant blueberry bush. Talk about tough....

yote, you're killin' me here, lol!! And I want blueberries too if I'm sucking up;>> Ya know I've got that big ole van for haulin' stuff like that!

I'd love to give you some,Tgg, if I ever got any. Everyone else gets them--the squirrels, birds etc. Netted my other ones this year and got a few, but this bush is in my flower bed so I just left it and considered it the animal's buffet. Thought it might discourage other pilferage from my garden. Boy, was I wrong.

Same here with the figs and raspberries. Gee, I'd love to net the fig tree. It was supposed to be a dwarf, but it's taller than the house. Maybe dwarf is relative, huh? LOL!

Yote anyone who would take King Kong from me is a great person.LOL I hated that plant for sdome reason and it would not die. I tried to kill it with everything except round -up.

I miss my red Maple from the yard up there hope it has a baby so I can move one down here.

Lavina

I finally killed it Lavina, but it lived a long while. Forgot to water it once--that's all it takes for a coleus!