What did you do in the garden today?

[BReeder!]

Weather is calling for a week of thunderstorms. We have flash food warnings now. We went from bone dry to soaking wet. The grind is getting spongy. I'm not sure it will be able to absorb all this water. Hoping the garden doesn't flood. We expected this in early May not now...

 

[Sooner Magnolia]

Had to end the suffering of that poor little chick. It is supposed to rain tonight and for several days here, so I'll probably just check for pests and see if anything is ready to pick when it cools off.

 

[Sally PB]

Weather is calling for a week of thunderstorms. We have flash food warnings now. We went from bone dry to soaking wet. The grind is getting spongy. I'm not sure it will be able to absorb all this water. Hoping the garden doesn't flood. We expected this in early May not now..

Same here. I haven't walked down to the garden to see what might have washed away...

The way y'all describe Florida makes me think snowstorms aren't that bad!

Oh ,it's pouring rain again. Wasn't it just a week ago I was complaining about how dry it was....?

 

[Ascholten]

Yah we literally overnight went from the dry season, some 40 days without any notable rain, to the daily thunderstorm gig. Welcome to Florida. Yesterday had a really close lighting strike. All I know is I was sleeping and got woke by what sounded like a bomb going off that shook the entire house. Ive been hit 2 confirmed times by lightning in the last 10 years, once or twice unconfirmed. Last year one popped my stereo and subwoofer and blew up my modem, but thankfully the solar system rode right thru it w/o any damage. The last thing I need is a lightning bolt making it's way into 50kw of Lithium Batteries The rest of the week is supposed to be storms. This is actually the easy time of year for the weather guessers. And today in Jacksonville, you have a 50 percent chance of rain. If it rains, I told you so, if it don't rain, I told you so. I wish I could be right only half the time at MY job Actually you can watch the sea breeze roll in, and see the land drift coming across from the gulf side, you KNOW what it's going to do and when they collide, ..you can actually predict where the storms will bloom. Front collision and about 20 minutes later, kaboom, it just follows the collision line. If it's not the western front, its the outflow from a previous popper that hits the sea breeze and blows everything up. Yep, welcome to florida. Lightning capital of the world, but man, the lightning display at night on a distant storm especially when you get the what I call spider lightning that just crawls across the anvil head, it's a beautiful thing actually.... at a distance that is.

Aaron

 

[Ascholten]

However..... on the snowstorms.
I grew up in Chicago. Southside actually.
You can KEEP your snow, and 30 below winters, with the wind chill 60 and 70 below.
Ill gladly wear the weather sissy label and cry when it gets in the 40's in Florida

Aaron

 

[BReeder!]

However..... on the snowstorms.
I grew up in Chicago. Southside actually.
You can KEEP your snow, and 30 below winters, with the wind chill 60 and 70 below.
Ill gladly wear the weather sissy label and cry when it gets in the 40's in Florida

Aaron

Just outside Chicago here. Also grew up on the Southside in the city. My storms are worse now though here in the west suburbs.

 

[Ascholten]

Just outside Chicago here. Also grew up on the Southside in the city. My storms are worse now though here in the west suburbs.

Grew up in Oak Forest, Tinley Park. I remember all too well shoveling snow, and wrapping yourself up in anything you can find for the mile walk to school. Every darned friggin school in the state would close, but NOOoooo NOT district 230 ..... spending the better part of an hour or so chopping ice off the driveway, only to have the snow plow come by and throw it all back up again. I DO miss the fall though, Kankakee and the areas, the change of seasons and the leaves turning colors, camping during the indian summer, it was just so beautiful, but... memories are good nuff for this old man now. Don't need no snow. Things have changed so much now too, it's not like it was back in the 70s.

Aaron

 

[TJAnonymous]

I grew up in Northern Indiana. Two words - Lake Effect.

 

[Mutchi]

Overcast all day. Supposed to get rain, but so far just a bit. @WthrLady - I hope to never see 10.5" in Ohio EVER, or even half that - I have seen 5" in a short time, however, and I'm good, don't need to see that again either.

Chicken problem #1: Lazy girls...only 2 eggs yesterday and only 5 today. Normally 9-10.

Chicken Problem #2: Sick chicken, only 4.5 months old, is breathing with mouth open a lot, but no wheezing, no discharge. Isn't eating. I'm picking her up several times a day to drink water from the waterer....She is more frightful of me today (which is a good thing bc she's a bit more aware than yesterday when she let me walk up to her up). Nothing looks amiss other than her behavior (not really moving, in a corner). I have her in a covered pen with another hen for company. They can see and hear the flock as it is only about 5-6' away.


We had a rainbow, and could see the whole thing!
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One bed: Turnips, Cucumbers, Beets, Carrots, Soybeans (for Edamame), and 2 bare spots for more turnips to be planted soon.
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Cabbage: looking good (under insect netting), this variety is "Stonhead" and it is very pretty. The other 3 types are much larger and not forming heads yet.
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Bush Beans are beginning to flower.
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First eggplant is growing well.
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That freaks my out, I've never seen a real eggplant.

 

[Mutchi]

I started pulling weeds! Half of the garden is pulled, tilled, and loosened!