“It’s been wet this week!”
“How wet is it, BG?”
“It’s so wet, the tomatoes are growing air roots!”
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Humidity near 100%…once you get wet from rain or perspiration…you stay wet until you change clothes.
We got some minimal rain but our water table is down 4 feet. It’s extremely dry in Kansas. Your good fortune should produce mountains of tomatoes!
Same down here in Arlington BG. I’ve been posting in the veggie grafting thread that I’m struggling to keep my scion tops from rooting and ruining the whole point of grafting. Hopefully drier tomorrow and then some nice sun (or at least part sun) to make it all grow like weeds next week.
Of course the weeds have been turbo charged by the rain as well, so I better get weeding tomorrow!
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Yep. When the sun hits this mess next week, ‘we in trouble boss’.
Here it has been a slow soaking rain all week. Creek didn’t flood. Everything is kinda gushy.
BTW having raised beds in high rainfall areas helps, esp if well mulched with organic matter.
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Fours dsys of rain in Newport, RI. Makes it impossible to garden , spray, or watch the Volvo international sailboat races!
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My onions also flopped over - the soft mud couldn’t hold them up. I’m not sure If it’s better to to try to stand them back up, or just kinda let them do whatever they want at this point.
Wagener apple just arrived from stark but actual driving rain here. Had to take the flags off the flagpole.
Will try to plant tomorrow.
I have to watch it walking on my orchard hill, its like liquid mud. 3.5" of rain in the last week.
Fortunately it will be ending soon…
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here in n. maine we have dodged the deluge that the s. new england states have got. matter of fact we got 1/2 rain last night. 1st rain in 3 weeks! unsual for the month of may here. I’ve never had to water in may but i have for the last 2 weeks.
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6 days of rain NY. 1 1/2 inches Saturday. Finally some sun coming this week and an opportunity to spray.
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Actually Moose the deluge we did get was bad. Many of my trees were in full blossom and I am so hoping I will have good pollination! My Black Boy peach was edited by the rain , actually no thinning will be necessary because of the rain! Ugh!
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Yup. Im in LI, bohemia. Got 2 trees in its good planting weather but man was i soaked
sorry to hear that. my brothers in bristol, ct . guess they got pounded hard with hail and heavy rain. big oak fell on his bosses truck.
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Ugh😱
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Well, the sun came out today, and proceeded to turn it into a sauna, very humid out there, but at least no rain.
I think we ended up with between 5-6" since Tuesday night. Our tater/onion patch got some pretty bad erosion, some of the seed taters are exposed on top of the mud, and a lot of the onion sets got washed out into the yard.
The Dapple Dandy that was planted a couple months ago has been sprouting little limbs and leaves, but a lot of them are droopy, I assume because of waterlogged roots. And one of the blueberry plant’s leaves are turning brown for prob the same reason. We desperately need a few hot sunny days to dry things up, or it could be bad.
Thankfully the strawberry patch seems to be doing well, lots of berries are forming, and we’re getting maybe a handful of ripe ones every day.
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Very dry here. Send us some of that rain.
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We’ve had so much rain past couple weeks that I was afraid to put up a ladder and graft. By the time I did, the scions were already showing green… I grafted anyway. 2 days later and the green seems to have died…I’m hoping they might still take… Anyone ever done the same?
Scott