Viewing post #1181996 by Littlecheryl

Karen, Sorry you've been having problems with rain. Have you looked into wood chips? It might help with the standing water and help from your soil from washing away. We got a wood chipper and we have loved it!! We rake the leaves in the fall, put them thru the shredder and put them over our garden soil. I then took the wood chips and spread them on top. My soil is very dark and so much easier to dig in. Also wood chips are great at soaking up water. You can call a local tree cutting company and they usually drop them of for free. The film I got the idea from is Back to Eden. I love the way it has changed my garden just from fall to now.

Everyones plants look great!!!!

I went on vacation this past week (just got back today) and the first day into my vacation I was informed we had a hail storm It happens every year and I knew it was going to do it when I wasn't home to run out to cover my garden. The week before I went on vacation I saved my garden twice. Luckily most of the plants will be okay. I took the damage tomatoes off the plants, left all the leaves from our maples above in my containers, saw my peas starting new leaves from them being damaged. My beans are beat up but luckily I over planted My poor seedlings that I was going to transplant when I got back didn't make it. Half of my nasturtiums were destroyed but my marigold seedlings will make it. At least not all was lost like last year (we got a cold snap and cold after our average last day of frost....2 weeks after I planted). Just preparing for the next swap and getting bags ready for my rare beans to isolate. I don't plan on isolating the common ones (5% chance, I'll take the chance). Pictures are on my phone I can try to post later but there is so many leaves from the trees around its hard to see the damage to the garden. Well off to listing more for the next swap and waking up tomorrow to mulch my garden with leaves and wood chips. Oh and I didn't think I would miss my garden for the 8 days I was gone but I did.....and I was in Vegas no green to look at but I did convince my husband to go to a nursery to see if there were things to get