What did you do in the garden today?

[Liz Birdlover]

Holy crap...just saw something I've never seen before. Apparently, all the rain & wind have really kicked up the ocean waves, along with high tide. There is major flooding trying to drive southward, to the jobsite. The pounding surf has beaten the sand dunes away & is on the roadway! We've got a high tide coming tonight. There's more rain coming this week. They're working with bulldozers & barricades & shutting down the main roadway. Well...we can't do much about weather. Just try to stay safe. I'm feeling rather fortunate, all I have here is an occasional moat around the barn, but never in the barn. I noticed it's been a wet season but wow, never saw this kind of stuff happen before.
https://www.wboc.com/news/update-du...cle_2ae0adda-eb7c-11ee-9966-af0f9e166ce3.html

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

When people come on the thread just to complain about it, I'm so happy for the ignore button.

 

[Minanora]

Holy crap...just saw something I've never seen before. Apparently, all the rain & wind have really kicked up the ocean waves, along with high tide. There is major flooding trying to drive southward, to the jobsite. The pounding surf has beaten the sand dunes away & is on the roadway! We've got a high tide coming tonight. There's more rain coming this week. They're working with bulldozers & barricades & shutting down the main roadway. Well...we can't do much about weather. Just try to stay safe. I'm feeling rather fortunate, all I have here is an occasional moat around the barn, but never in the barn. I noticed it's been a wet season but wow, never saw this kind of stuff happen before.
https://www.wboc.com/news/update-du...cle_2ae0adda-eb7c-11ee-9966-af0f9e166ce3.html
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Oooooo. That's crazy! See this is why I won't live by the ocean or a river! I'm glad your barn and home doesn't flood. Moat makes for good fertile soil around the barn I bet! Stay safe over there!

Under our house floods pretty good about once every 20 years. Until two years ago that is. Our ground has been so saturated that it flooded to the base of the floor joists two years ago. We had a spare pool pump and made quick work of it. The neighbor was outside, in the rain, filling a shop vac with water from under their house and dumping it out every time it filled (painful to watch) so I let them use our pool pump as well.

This season we kept a sump pump down there, it ran a lot more than I expected. I thought we were done with rain, so I took it out two weeks ago, now we're going to get two+ inches over the weekend. Go figure.

I dug a hole this morning to see where the water line is right now, 13" down there's standing water. So I get to crawl under the house and put the sump pump back before we leave for the weekend. I may try to push it into place from outside.... It's still very soggy down there.

The small human is on spring break so we went out to the yard this morning and took our time. Made me "late" for work, but, eh. Worth it!

My boy and his apple seeds this morning. Three have come up now!

The grapes are starting to leaf out!

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

So...I just read this...seems I need to separate all types of corn from eachother by 250 feet. Their corn, the sweet corn & the popping corn must all be 250 feet apart.
https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/article/2012/5-2/sweetcorn.html

Well...I can do it, but it means extra garden areas now...oh, it's a good thing I'm feeling so motivated, right? Lol

Better to find out now than after you’ve planted! Fewer unpleasant surprises this way.

 

[Smokerbill]

My Minowase Daikon seeds just shipped from Baker Creek Heirloom seeds. I need to build a new deep raised bed with loose soil for these, since they can reach 2 feet in length!

 

[Gazergirlstar]

hey everyone im new to the page and wanted to say hi ! . we started our family garden last year and had a lot of fun with it. hoping to get some good results this year as well. any tips for a small backyard garden ?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Welcome to garden thread to all the new folks!
We are wet there is allot of rain.
May get to plant like plant next month mid month?
I am in SW Washington state.

 

[WthrLady]

@Gazergirlstar WELCOME!
The herb garden is sealed under protective ice.

 

[Molpet]

hey everyone im new to the page and wanted to say hi ! . we started our family garden last year and had a lot of fun with it. hoping to get some good results this year as well. any tips for a small backyard garden ?

Lots of compost

 

[Minanora]

hey everyone im new to the page and wanted to say hi ! . we started our family garden last year and had a lot of fun with it. hoping to get some good results this year as well. any tips for a small backyard garden ?

Don't let your chickens in it if you want to eat any of it yourself.

Have fun with it! Use lots of compost, mulch the top of the soil to retain moisture and prevent weeds, never be afraid to ask questions, and share lots of pictures!