when are you sowing your garden this year?

[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.

[TheGrey]

There were some big splattery hailstones that came before that, but it was the combination of the wind and rain with the gravel-sized hail that took out my plants.

[hunterhawk]

Well no hail here but I do have to murder whatever are my ripe strawberries.. Guessing birds... Didn't see any tracks... Any other guesses?

[TheGrey]

Well no hail here but I do have to murder whatever are my ripe strawberries.. Guessing birds... Didn't see any tracks... Any other guesses?

I have yet to see any critter that will pass up strawberries. Robins love them. Bunnies love them. Mice love them. Raccoons love them. Sorry to hear about your strawberries! Have you tried putting any of that garden netting around them, to keep the beasties away?

[newracer]

We have some carrots just starting to break the surface. All the rest was bought already started, green peppers, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes, cucumber, watermelon, and pumpkin.






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