We have already picked up almost 2.5" of the glorious wet stuff this morning! I was going to sow the rest of my veggies this morning, but I guess they'll wait.
Rain!!
Not even a drop here.
my husband said that it rained at least 2" at home ... good ... but I think my tomatoes will develop tons of suckers and nobody to remove them ... ohhhhh
More rain here last night, this time complete with high winds and hail in some areas. Thankfully, we only got wind and rain at my place. Picked up another 1/2". As much as I love the rain and I know we need it, I'm ready for my garden to dry out a bit.
This is fantastic!
It is raining right now !
My sprinkler system is still off since last October.
We are due yet more rain Thurs/ Fri. I have never seen the amaryllis flop from too much water, but some are. The ants have moved into anything with hi ground including the house. We are mowing every single day. I am still impressed I got one out of the ground, but its because tje ground feels like quiksand.
I have 2 foot weeds in my vegetable garden area from the rain, all I planted was swiss chard, broccoli which has no gone to seed and cabbage that never made heads and is blooming. But the wildflower show is about to hit glorious, apparently the wind seeded the garden.
long ago someone told me to plant crown vetch to improve the soil. I didn't but it sure has planted itself!
We only picked up another 1/4" last night, but did get 3.25" on Friday night. I'm ready to dry out just a little bit. Praying for the folks that bore the brunt of last night's storms and tornadoes in Stephenville, Cleburne, and points east. Crazy stuff!
There 3 kinds of 'crown vetch' its like crimson clover and is used as a green manure- must be tilled in as it blooms to do any good. Agreed its coming up everywhere. Am in NC and heard of melon size hail in Stephenville. That area south of DallAS HAS a lot of freaky weather. Hope everyone is ok.
I haven't heard of any injuries, just property damage from the storms. Raining again today.
I hate to say this, but I'm really ready for a few days of no rain! My poor garden is soggy and there's water standing in a few places in my yard. Even as I type this, it's starting to rain again. We've picked up over 3" today.
I just pulled some of my cactus up under a covered area. Not sure if it is too late for some of them, but they have been wet a LOT lately. And the forecast is is rainy for as far as they are predicting so I don't know if they will really be able to dry out with the humidity so high. I don't want to complain about too much of a good thing, but...
I have 5 yards of garden soil sitting on my gravel drive to build "wales" with so that the top of my garden (2 ft higher than the bottom) actually retains moisture. The dirt came friday but I had to get a car inspected, other stuff done, got some dirt moved last night. Bet it is heavier wet, but I am still not complaining. got between half and 3/4 inch friday night, and about 2.5 to 3 inches this morning at 7 am
Dennis, I'm right there with you! I know I shouldn't complain, but I'd like about a week of nice, moderate temp, DRY days. We ended with 3.75" yesterday.
I am loving this rain! The lakes are back to normal, the NTWD just lifted all water restrictions, and my flowerbeds are so happy. Looks like a good amount will fall this afternoon and continue through the next week. After the past few years of drought, I'm still not to the point where I want it to end. Not to mention the nice temps and not having to turn on the A/C. This has truly been a glorious spring.
Carla
Saw Red River as I crossed into Texas @ Gainesville in the rain- hasnt crested yet but running bank full and out into the fields before you reach the main channel. Okla isn't the only people growing webbed toes, chuckl. 6pm the drizzles and rains have let up enough I can see a sunset getting ready. I keep thinking I should find a way to store the mudpuddles for later in the year...
I am considering building a catchment pond to catch and hold runoff but I am kind of running out of landspace for my adventures.
Picked up another 1.5" overnight. I think I might need an ark soon.
Same here....there was only a small chance of rain but we got a storm. It has rained everyday for weeks. Got multiple flash flood warnings thru out the night.
Sigh, hard rains. Creek on the rise, rains have only slowed so no telling where we will record today.
I have been at this house looking at a bee tree before. Those stacks of cinderblocks under the iron I beams were between 4 and 5 feet tall as I remember it.
Where is that Gypsi?
Johnson county, s of mansfield near paris. Photo from wfaa-tv's news feed on twitter this morning. I recognized the house and the owner when I turned the news on this morning. He is a mechanic that has worked on my truck, which is how I came to go look at his bees and visit with his wife. Mountain Creek is about 40 feet behind his house.
Wow!
Paris isnt south of Mansfield unless they have a 2nd one in Texas. Midlothian, Alvarado...
well he is in between south of Mansfield and oh shoot, what did they say on the news?
Looking at a Texas map. You are right, I know where Paris is, other side of Plano
VENUS -
West of Midlothian, North of Venus South of Mansfield, rural Johnson county. I don't remember exactly how i got down there but I think it involved 287 and I cut west toward Venus before I got to Midlothian. Sorry.
(more sleep less gardening would help)
Haha, Stephanie! An ark! But really, this is getting silly. Can't Mother Nature space out all this rain? I know there are places in TX that need it desperately. Are conditions less desperate now?😋.
Rain rain go away. Come again another day.
In about a week.
Wish I had gotten to plant my veggie garden...
Janet
on this day 35 years ago Mt Saint Helens blew. 1980 was the hottest year on record, still is, 2011, didn't quite break that. The winter before it snowed every 2 weeks. (don't know what caused that). And in the fall of 1981 it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. I know the ash load from St Helens contributed to the summer of 80 and some of the 1981 stuff. climate change?
I'm with you, Janet. Let's space it out and allow things to dry out a bit. There are some lakes west of Fort Worth that still need rain as they are still below conservation stage, but are coming up. Place out in west Texas can also use the rain. I just want to dry out because my plants are stunted and the slugs are taking over the world.
Slugs and pill bugs. Janet I'm with you, never got a chance to clear out the weeds and plant my garden either. I finally got some tomato plants in the ground yesterday evening. But the weeds are something else.
Hi all.. hope everyone has had a chance to dry out a little.. it has been a soggy mess here as well. Dirt guy was never able to bring a load of dirt for the garden plot.. too wet for his truck to pull through, so I am only doing raised beds this year. Everything sure is happy, though.. you'll never hear me complain about rain LOL
Dollar wort. Evil. I've tried dumping vinegar right on them. The leaves turn brown & in a month they come back stronger! I shovel down as low as I can & pull & pull & try to get as many as I can. I lay black weed cover & top that with 3-4 inches of mulch. They grow under it. Grrrrr!
Its the Year of the Dollarweed! Rained all mornin, thunder movin back in. I suspect my seeds are drowning, where the moles once were are quiksand to your calves. Still is draining on down the way. If the engineers planned well enough, the swamps won't advance to Dallas, chuckl.
there is a weird almost crescent shaped fine vine infiltrating the soil under my live oak, when I get time I will dig it all out and put in underlayment and mulch inside an edge. The stuff spreads like crazy, much thinner runners than dollar weed and I have no idea how it got there.
We've picked up 1/4" of rain today. Oh yay!
We have had rain everyday. Some days it's a storm and other times like today it was just on and off sprinkles. Pill bugs are everywhere including the house lol. Mosquitos r terrible and the humidity does wonders for my naturally curly (frizzy) hair, lol
I got rained on cleaning a pond. Need to merge a couple of beehive but the bee are cranky when wet. At least it was only about 3/8 of an inch per my official bucket.
Stormed all night....
Got about 1 to 1.5 inches here depending on which bucket guage I'm looking at.
We picked up 1/4" but that gave me another 100 gallons in the rainbarrel! So far this month, we've emptied the full 330 gallon tank into our pool twice and tye rain just keeps coming. Not complaining :D