It has rained nearly all day again today. I'm so sick of rain. It washed some nailed landscaping timbers into the middle of the road and I had to go drag them back. You'll have to overlook the straps on my camera. I think they are sticking out on every picture. I was trying to take pixs and hold the umbrella.
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Another pic.
A broken Brug from wind and rain.
Water running everywhere.
My poor corn is just laid over.
Castor beans laid over.
Ada, I've been out digging all day to redirect the water, I've lost, oh so many plants to the rain. I guess the ONLY thing worse than a wet spring and early summer, is a dry spring and early summer. Oh, well...
Walkway thru one of my gardens
Another crosstie floated into the neighbors yard.
My sunflowers
Water standing in a flower bed.
Sherry, looks like we're going to have to build a boat. LOL
Holy Smokes!! Already a record year,this has been a strange spring,I hope you dry out Ada.
Me too, Root. It's been raining for almost two weeks and it's supposed to rain tomorrow also.
We had it a month ago,every day for 3 weeks it seemed,seems odd to go a few days without rain now.
Gee Ada, my yard isn't as bad as yours, but I'm sure sick of rain too. Did you see my Blue Skies thread? That's the only blue sky I've seen in a while, (didn't last long) and I was naturally at work!
I bet you're real glad you did your photo albums now, at least you know how your beautiful garden should look! Sure wish I had done one :(
The bad thing is my seedlings are too wet and are looking so bad. It's been a terrible year for me and my seedlings. The frogs/toads are still rooting the dirt and plants out. I don't know what to do for them. If they root them out and the sun comes out hot on them before I find them, they're toast and there isn't hope hope for them even if I do find them before the sun shines on them. I swept up over half of a five gallon bucket of soil they had rooted out of my plants this week. I sat a tropical hibiscus in the garage that was drowning and the next morning half of the soil was laying behind the pot on the floor. I've never seen so many frogs.
Oh I am so sorry, Ada. All your beautiful gardens and all your hard work. This is so sad. Do they forecast any dry weather soon?
Kell, Not for the next few days. I'm sure ready for some dry weather. LOL
Ada, I know exactly how you feel. As of June 27, we had 5 days in the month of June without rain. It is an all-time record high for rain in June. We have had around 20 inches and everything has been saturated for weeks with water.
I have not been able to fertilize for weeks because of this rain. My small brugs seedlings that I put out are in such bad shape. I went and repotted some of them, but I have already pitched out more than a dozen because of rot. Both the ones in pots and in the ground are having a hard time. I even pulled some 2 ft. brug seedling out of the ground today because they were rotted. Things are such a mess but they say we are going to have sunshine by the weekend.
As much as we try, there are just some things that we cannot control. It is not near as bad as the 43" of rain within 24 hours that we received in the summer of 1979. LOL....I feel better already, since I have put things in perspective.
I'm so sorry for all your wet woes....but I on the other hand am having just the opposite problem...No rain. Here I sit in Seattle Washington, a city whose reputation is of WET (not true).... and we have only had 4.8 inches of rain since May 1st. I would gladly trade you places for a few days.
Ada, Please send some of that rain to Fort Pierce! It has rained some all around us,But we aren't getting ANY! I am sooo tired of dragging the water hose every day!It is really HOT here too!Melba
Gosh, I feel bad for all of you having to deal with the constant rains. We are now needing rain and I doubt we get it. Chances are there for the weekend, but they are not good chances. Ada, your corn will stand back up as soon as you get some sunshine. Hope it dries quickly for you and especially for the seedlings and other plants.
Ada, your pics look like my backyard. All my plants, and even the lawn, are turning yellow from way too much rain. I've lost several newly planted daylilies as well. In August we will probably be wishing we had some rain, but right now I want sunshine.
Frannie, I have not been able to fertilize for weeks, either. At lease two weeks, maybe three and then it was just very light. I really only have one brug that's in danger and it's in the ground, it's begging to have the rain turned off, but I understand we are going to get really big rain soon - we got 5 inches at one sitting day before yesterday, then it rained all night. We can't mow, the crops have really been hit and all we can do is sit inside and twiddle our thumbs...what doesn't drown, has root rot and mildew...and we all know we will probably be begging for rain, a week after it stops...about the only good thing about it is that the aircon bills aren't sky high, yet!!
Ada, I hope you and your gardens get the rest and sunshine you want and need. Your gardens still show the hard work that you put into them. As with Rikerbear, we too are wishing for rain. We are having a record year for forest fires, (>400 at the moment) and we have watering restrictions.
Linda
Ada .. I am so sorry this is happening. We went through this here too, although I did not get the flooding you are. Hope it gets better for you around there soon and you start drying out. Everyone all over is not having a very good spring & summer!
Thanks all. Yes, it's been a weird year and I sure wish I could send some of this rain to some of you that's so dry. The mosquitoes are harrible. I think they must be the size of a B52 bomber. LOL They sure bite like they're that size. Thank goodness for Off and mosquito dunks. I desperately need to pull Morning Glories and weeds from my beans and Okra but I'd probably mare up in the mud and have to call for help.LOL
Shirley, the corn will straighten back up if the wind and storms will allow it but if it continues to stay so wet, hot and muggy, I fear it will sour on the cobb. We'll have a couple hours of sun, then we'll have a terrible thunderstorm with heavy downpours and wind. Thank goodness, we haven't had any hail as of yet. We had three bad storms yesterday one right after the other. I never lost any plants when we had the drought but I sure lost lots from being too wet.
Oh Ada. I just went back and looked and see you do have cobs on the corn. I'm so sorry. I do hope it will come up enough to go ahead and mature for you. I have to tell you this....one year I had great looking corn in the garden. It was about 7 ft. tall and setting cobs. Of course it was dry as a bone out there and I thought I should water it. I knew that if I watered overhead, the water would follow the stalk to the ground. It was about 5 in the PM and very hot. I watered. Came up to the deck and was drinking my tea and I heard a strange noise. I look out at the garden in time to watch all the corn fall over. I mean flat. I guess I wasn't supposed to water in the heat of the day when the sun was shinning. No corn that year. I felt so stupid and was so upset with myself. Oh well. Learned a lesson.
Oh Ada! I am very sorry! You have worked so hard in your garden and now that! I hope, that your weather will change soon.
Wow, Shirley. What a bomber. I went to the garden this eveing and the middle of my garden is covered up in leaves, sticks, mulch and everything else. I waded out into the mud up to my ankles and tried to uncover some of my butter peas which were almost ready to pick. What a mess. And you won't believe this. One of my big tomato stakes (8 ft. tall) was totally washed out of the ground. My tomato plants are a disaster. Green tomaoes broken off the stalks laying in the mud.My neighbor, where my railroad tie washed to, said he went out on the lower street and pulled one of the RR ties back up here with his tractor. So you know we really had a down pour. His basement is flooded. I guess I'm thankful now I don't have a basement. LOL
Thanks so much, Monika. Hopefully the weather will get better for all of us.
You're right Jeanne, but you just have to grin and bear it and go plant more Brugs. LOL
Sorry to hear that Ada. I sure hope that it will get better for you soon.
Your gardens are sooooo beautiful... :)
Thanks, SD. Between the rains, winds and frogs/toads, I hope I'll have a few seedlings left. I've lost so many to all this.
Gosh, it has to quit before long. I will help you replace whatever I can when it is all over.
Thanks so much, Shirley. I have gone thru almost three things of Pro Mix since the rains started trying to keep some dry soil in these pots but then it comes another gully washer and they're just like they were before. I sure have a lot of wet potting soil to use for other things when I need it. LOL I finally just gave up battling Mother Nature and the frogs/toads. I watered a smal seedling in the garage and it looked fine but as soon as the water hit the soil, it caved in to nothing. It's so weird how these frogs or toads dig this soil out of some of these pots and the top looks normal but if I dump the pot, the toad will be in the bottom of the pot. I've never seen anything like this before. The seedling will look bad wilted like it needs water badly but there's almost no soil on the roots of them ( just a toad) LOL
Those toads and frogs are just trying to find some place to live until the water goes down and they like the easy digging. I keep pots on the deck, violet size with attached saucers, full of sand. They are used for ashtrays. I had one sitting on the deck floor last year and looked at it and there was a toad sitting in it. The sand was moist and he was evidently liking it. He stayed there off and on most of the summer.
I wish they'd find higher ground than mine or at least dig in something besides my Brug seedlings. Maybe they're hiding from the two black snakes that crawl around out there.
The rain has caused so much damage and now that we have a smidgen of sun, look what has happened to my brug, attached. The part that is wilted is loaded with buds, the part with no buds has leaves the size of Milwaukee. Is there anything I can do?? What would you guys suggest???
