Alright ready for the first day of spring? AHhhhhh Over the weekend we took in over 8 in of rain before last night hit soooo 9-10 in easy and everything is under water in the back yard! I hope everything pulls throughand the seeds I had planted dont all float away.
So channel 5 said 33 or 32 for the next 3 days.. yikes! So I looked up my zip code on the weather channel and they say 36 for tonight and for the next nights in the 40s for Red Oak. Does anyone else have issues with the local weather being for such a huge area that they over shoot the weather for the North? (or in your case maybe East, West, or South?)
What do you have in the ground now?
Welcome back Sylvia and love that new name!!!
Mitch
Come sit a soaked Spell...
Hi Mitch, sorry you got drowned! I didn't realize ya'll had that much. I think it rained all night here and DH said the rain gauge had 1/3 ". I think it must have cracks from dry rot. I can't believe that's all we got.
Mary Lee
Checking in from Rowlett where we also got mega rain ...about the same as you, Mitch..
I have always said this state is a state of extremes, either way too much of something or not enough. The rain is good but I would rather it come in smaller increments.
Kris
I think the state motto needs to be "All or none."
Mary Lee
I got about 5" of rain. I went out this morning and no puddles, so the ground just soaked it up. Luckily, I did have some buckets to collect rain water in. The recent rose plantings (moved some out of my pot ghetto last week) really enjoyed it.
I got two drops, that was all. Two little specks of moisture fell onto my windshield while I was driving. We are warm though, so I won't complain.
We got 5 1/2 inches here in Arlington yesterday. We went to a seminar about the history of Texas native plants and almost didn't make it.
It was really interesting learning about Lindheimer, Wright, Drummond, and all the other pioneers.
There was a creek nearby and it was all the way up to the bridge with water, with large logs floating by.
The presenter Mr. Barney Lipscomb is an author and researcher, he is a coauthor of the book; Shinner's and Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North central Texas.
It is a great book and I sure would like to have it, but it costs $90.00 so I think i will have to wait for a special occassion.
Josephine.
Well, they are reporting 9 1/2 inches in Garland and we are just east of that, so guess we got quite a bit after all...just went out to survey the damage, lots of mulch moved around, not much actually flooded out except some seeds I had just planted in containers..they are mostly gone and I expect to be seeing them sprouting in various places under the shelves where they had been sitting.
The most worrisome is the cold temps forecast for tonight and tomorrow...now the decision to bring in all the brugs or not...to cover the garden stuff or not...sigh. Hoping the temps will modify as the day goes on and the need for cover will lessen.
Kris
The Texas weather and soil can be frustrating, but it makes us stronger, better gardeners.
We got 1.36" of rain which arrived late last night. For I while, I thought it would miss us altogether. Three days' worth of chances without any rain was almost more than we could bear.
I have a book about Texas weather. It's a book about extremes dating back to the first recorded weather reports. In November 2004, we received almost 11" here on the ranch over a 2 day period. La Grange got over 12". We were on vacation at the time, but were told many of our dirt roads were underwater and closed. This part of the county is mostly unpaved.
Josephine, I downloaded Shiner's and Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas this past summer. It's a wonderful book. The entire book is available for download in this link:
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/NCTXpdf.htm
It's not the same as having the book itself, but until a special occasion comes along, you'll have the information handy. The next one in the series will be Illustrated Flora of East Texas.
stronger and better if it can swim! lol It has been very hard with all the water but by summer time I am going to be begging for it. My new roses love the water and so far the new platings I can get to are all doping great it is just the older beds under the most water with my veggies...
Thank you Veronica, I will check it out.
Josephine.
Oh my goodness, I was sure worried about you guys when I heard about all the rain - and now the predicted lows.
Veronica, I was like you - really frustrated about all the predictions and promises of rain, and then nothing. It was nice to hear rain on the roof last night, and it seems to have stopped now for the day. I'll have to see when I get home how much of the garden got watered.
I got 3/4 of an inch--sure better than nothing...but I hope we see some more soon--we are real low this year. As my friend so aptly puts it, "We live in a constant drought, frequently interrupted by heavy flooding".
Debbie
We got 1.2 inches over the past three days; the first two days were mostly drizzle, which softened the ground, and all the rain soaked in. Of course, there are still big cracks in the ground, but it's a lot better than it has been. As to overshooting the weather, I live just off a creek in Bastrop, and it's always colder here than the weatherman says it will be. It's supposed to be 40 tonight and 39 tomorrow night, which means we may get a light freeze. I made two old wheelbarrows into planters, and have coleus and polka dot plants in one and herbs that usually drown in my clay soil in the other. Those are covered with sheets tonight, and will be tomorrow night. The tomatoes and peppers that I bought I put into pots until I'm sure we won't get a freeze, and those, and other tenders are on the south porch, protected. As for the 3 coral honeysuckles, 2 flame acanthus, the passion vine, primrose jasmine, John Franklin rose, lindheimer's senna, 2 piney woods hibscus, and other volunteers that I potted up to give to friends, they will have to take their chances on the south side of the house. I sure hope it doesn't freeze. Lots of things are blooming, and the hummers that are fighting over the salvia greggiis will have to settle for hummer food instead.
There's a champeen mushroom growing in my back yard!
It looks like the "common garden variety" kind that emerge in wet weather, but they're usually little fellers.
The cap on this thing is about 5" across.
think I'm gonna look for a raft...
just in case.
Mitch, how did your plants do with all that water, did you lose any?
We didn't but we are on high ground. I did spend a good three hours pulling baby pecan trees out of my garden, it is amazing the root on those guys.
I figured that this was the time to do it, since my garden will never be that wet again.
I had to use pliers, and i still got blisters, but they are out of there.
Josephine.
I dont think that I have lost anything... the water at long last started to soak into the soil...