We had buckets of rain this afternoon. It was really amazing to see it rain that hard. As I peaked out into the yard to watch the water flow like a river down my driveway, I caught site of my garden.
It looked like a lake.
Those are raised beds but you can hardly tell since the water was almost to the top. My precious eggplant plants were drowning and about to capsize in their container. I have been babying those plants for months and I finally have fruit on them!
Luckily I had my rain boots on because the water was above my ankles. I was able to rescue the eggplants and bring them to higher ground.
The water has already receded. We do have a drain pipe in the low corner of the garden but it was raining so hard that the drain could not keep up.
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The weather has been absolutely insane. Your garden is still doing better than mine. We moved and couldn’t get anyone out to till so we planted late. In spite of that we got a freak hail storm that cut plants up like little machetes. I had tomatoes two and a half feed tall and corn plants that got cut in half. The hail killed all the cucumbers and cantaloupe and almost every okra plant.
Then the grasshoppers came – unbelievable numbers of grasshoppers! Now I know what I should have done early but didn’t. (Nolo grasshopper bait.)
Now it is 100 degrees almost every day and we know the soil here is really poor. I wonder why coastal grows fine but vegetables don’t. Something else to research.
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