The storm last night flattened half my garden. It rained inches last night and the winds flattened the garden in back. This morning I picked 84 broken off dill plants. I was going to offer them for sale over the next couple weeks, before the storm happened. Now most will end up wasted, because it’s too much to sell at once. Half my sunflowers are flat against the ground. The Indian corn is mostly on the ground. I have to try and stake the corn and sunflowers or just say the Hell with it. The water is standing on the lower lawn, and I doubt it can drain. My new garden beds are high enough to not have a water problem. I however have had it for this year. I did pick up some rain exposed potatoes. They should be bigger, but I’m not trying to cover them with dirt.
You could get a slab of salmon, some kosher salt, turbinado sugar and make lox with the dill, get a huge buyers club brick of cream cheese and make dill spread for a party, or hang and dry the dill. Other than that, I got nothing.
That sucks. I feel the pain as I am very attached to the veggie garden I have. A month or so ago, a torrential wind/rain storm laid most of my 4-5’ tall corn flat on ground. Really, really bummed me out. A friend said they would stand back up on their own, but I was very pessimistic. Two days later, ramrod straight to the sky with the bees a’buzzing like nothing ever happened. I am so glad I did not rip them up like I was tempted to do (out of raging anger at Ma Nature).
I say leave the corn alone, ime. Weird how they stand back up on their own (look at the ‘support roots’ afterwards, its like they are arms pushing stalks back up).
Sunflowers won’t do that unfortunately - been there/done that :mad: I lost a few dozen Mammoth Sun’s to that storm, but have a dozen or so still standing with their huge sunny faces following the sun daily.
ETA: the corn types I have are Peaches & Cream and Silver Queen, fwiw. No idea if type of corn has anything to do with the stalks standing back up.
Triple yippee! The basement floor has water on about a third of it after the 3 and one half inches of rain last night. Of course mother has moved a bunch of crap directly on the floor into the basement again. I bitched her out about doing this last summer when she start loading the floor with crap again. The best part is she dumped some dead person’s stuff in the basement on the floor that she couldn’t sell in a rummage sale last year. I’m not moving her crap out of the basement again. The stuff can rot and mold.
Sorry to hear that - we had a big hail storm last week, but the winds and the placement of my plants resulted in only getting a few new arrivals beat up (my fingers are crossed that they’ll survive the beating). Damn nature - so frivolous! Actually, we get hail here almost every year, so I should probably invest in some hail blankets or something.
I know how disheartening this can be. Last month my son and his friends decided to help me garden. They got long sticks and cut down all my weeds: Purple milkweed, Blue aster, Goldenrod, Jack-in-the-pulpit, may-apple, trillium, solomons-seal and more, wiped out. I swore I was going to give up gardening forever. Eventually some of the plants recovered and so did my spirits.
That’s too bad. We always stake our taller plants, or at least make a corral with stakes and string if there are a lot because in this hot weather thunderstorms and high wind can crop up any time. one time we had tuberous begonias that got decimated by marble sized hailstones. The foliage was as tender as lettuce, ripped to shreds. A week or so later, they were well on the road to recovery and continued spitting out baseball sized flowers, one after another, all summer.
I’m sorry for the loss of your plants. The weather has been very strange and I had hail last month. It feels more like August then July and with heat comes thunder showers. High winds are sometimes caused by microbursts and they will take trees down.
Harmonious: I am very curious if your corn stood back up on its own (??). I fully understand if you got overwhelmed and said screw-it and ripped 'em out with vigor. Done that myself more times to contrary plants than I will admit. Its a good thing plants can’t scream, or it would get loud here at times
They’re laying half over at about 45 degrees except a couple I propped up. I drove in long stakes and tied the sunflowers up. I’m done with trying to plant more stuff like beans and peas for fall. I’m not ripping up what I have. I’m just done doing stuff for it except picking. The stuff will just have to be all cockeyed and fight with whatever fell over on it.
I’m enjoying my Short n Sweet carrots that are my new favorite.
Good luck with it all. It took my corn (around 6-8’ tall including the top bits) over a week to get all the way up, so maybe yours will do similar (fingers crossed for ya!). I can tell you that if sunflowers have roots ripped, they usually fare poorly when its hot (less water uptake, etc).
My wife gets annoyed at how I am nowadays spending too long in garden and I’ll eat so much right out of ground that I often do not want dinner (including carrots, both Nanver’s 1/2-long and Scarlet nantes. yum). I am nowhere near vegetarian, but I can get used to this with such great tasty daily harvests. And I’m a long way from running out of things to eat out there… Won’t be long before I have pounds and pounds sunflower seed to chew on and spit shell everywhere
