when are you sowing your garden this year?

[HoneyBadger]

FWIW, Kale is super easy to grow and produces a ton of edible foliage. 2 mature plants is way more than enough for most families. We have 2 mature plants and 6 young ones. In about a month we'll be giving away kale to everyone we know. Beans and Peas are finally starting to do well and it's probably going to be really hot next week, which will likely kill them. We get a big handful of peas and another of beans about once a week.

[ronaldrwl]

Typical garden hall this time of year:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

[TheGrey]

Well, I think that freak hailstorm/deluge pretty much slaughtered the garden. I'll know more tomorrow, when I comb through the carnage.

[Great-Kazoo]

Well, I think that freak hailstorm/deluge pretty much slaughtered the garden. I'll know more tomorrow, when I comb through the carnage.

Even with (to date) moderate hail storms. our "garden" has not even broken the surface yet. Basically have a lot of nice looking dirt.

[TheGrey]

Even with (to date) moderate hail storms. our "garden" has not even broken the surface yet. Basically have a lot of nice looking dirt.

This was a hellacious hail storm. For a solid hour, rain pounded everything, and we had walnut-sized hail. Much of our maple tree has been stripped of leaves, and the whole neighborhood smells like green, bleeding plants.

I'm saddened because I raised many of those garden plants from seeds, and took great pains to transplant them into a properly-mixed soil base.
Dammit, I had plans for those veggies and melons. I hope some of them can bounce back- I have canning recipes and dehydrating recipes I wanted to try!

I am grateful that our peach tree seems to have avoided most of the damage; the maple sheltered it.

[Irving]

When was this hail storm?

I just bought a bunch of plants today and dirt is getting delivered on Wednesday. I've got no idea what I'm doing so I've reached out to a friend to tell me where/how to plant stuff. Next year I can be prepared and hopefully grow stuff from seed.

[HoneyBadger]

No hail. Probably the only real advantage I have in CA over CO. Every time my plants started doing well in CO, it would hail. So frustrating!

[Dave]

Got into work this morning and everyone's complaining about the rain and hail last night. We just had a little bit of dew on the grass and cars this morning in my neighborhood. Though the hail we got 2 weeks ago tore up the rhubarb and strawberry patches. along with the trees. Though our apple tree has started to bear fruit, so this year we'll be able to find out what kind it is.

[TheGrey]

The hail came at about 4:30 pm last night, and it accompanied a massive deluge of rain and wind. I'll load up some photos, although none of them are of my garden in the backyard.

[Irving]

Ahhh, just large enough to hurt plants.