the drought

wanted to know if any of you have thought about sowing any seeds for winter or spring if the drought has made you all back out of growing any seeds this coming year? i have a bunch that i want to sow but then i dont know how i am going to keep them watered if we dont get any rain? just wanted to know about what your thoughts are about this? i know i will have to keep the ones in the gh watered but not sure how to keep them watered in the summer plmk what ideas you all might have come up with to still have a pretty gardens no matter if we get rain or not thxs

that's a good question. we weren't as bad as some folks, but as dry as everything was and the threat of water restrictions if the necessary rain doesn't fill the resevoirs it seems that it would almost be useless to plant alot of new things in the gardens. there was a thread on this a short time ago and people were saying that they were filling buckets of water from the shower, while waiting for the water to warm up....instead of letting it run down the drain they filled buckets for the garden. there were alot of other really good ideas there too. hopefully some of them will pop by here and give some of those suggestions again

Check this thread out, some good links. Interesting ideas.http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/776076/

I'm planting as usual. Starting seeds/cuttings as usual. Could be I'm in denial...could also be right,,,who knows???

The rain is coming. One of these years. LOL. Hurricane season has been really slow for what? 3 or 4 years now? We're due.

which reminds me, they say 'de nile' is a river in Egypt *winks* play on words my husband always says. lol.... :0)

I hope all works out better next year for everyone in the drought areas, including myself in that one to. :)

r30

I'm going ahead with my planting, but I am looking more at drought tolerant plants that won't get drowned when the rain finally comes.

my yard is low and sort of swampy in the back, so there is almost always enough moisture.... but if we do get a monsoon (one of these days), it will flood

Diehard you haven't been here for a good rainy season. LOL. In fact many of the new developments haven't been here. It's always interesting to see where the developers got the drainage wrong. You would be surprised how much water can build up in the marsh areas. Feets of water. It drains fast but not when you get day after day of rain.

This message was edited Dec 19, 2007 2:54 PM

you are right about that... our neighbor filled in our drainage swaleso that makes my yard become more not-drained

Oh please may we have a rainy January!

....but not freezing rain.... (like we'd get that down here! knocking on wood! this time deb doesn't have to remind me) but you never know!

A rainy warm March would be nice. Followed by a rainy warm April.

sure would

it seems like we are already getting more rain this month than we have the past 7 months. Granted its not much-but still more. I think we will see more and more this winter. The forecast for the next 5 days is for more rain too

none on ney years's eve i hope....

We have had more than 3" of the wet stuff this morning and it is still comng down - hard.
Yippeeeeeeee

i hope it stays like that... they say it will rain all day today too i think


well its 3:00, and it looks like we've gotten all the rain we're gonna get. we have gotten 4 1/2 inches since last night

This message was edited Dec 21, 2007 3:00 PM

2 and 1/2 inches here! Happy. :)