Straw is a wonderful mulch to hold soil and lessen soil washout. I find the small pine back nuggets are useless as they wash away with even the smallest rainfall.

Gee,Kay,Thats a lot of rain.Guess our rain moved over to your area.It rained for 9 days here,and left 9 and a half inches of rain.We really needed it here.Suppose to start up again tomorrow.

Jean

Rita,
You are right about the pine nuggets...just kicking myself since I had the mulch ready to use, and just wanted to do the entire bed at once.

Jean, I hope this rain goes where it is needed as we have been blessed enough with it for now.
kay

We've been getting it almost daily too, but we need it. All of my beds are pretty high up so water doesn't stand. Our biggest problem right now is the mosquitoes, they are loving the wet, hot, humid conditions and don't even go in during the day, they are out 24/7 and it makes it impossible to work outside right now. Come on cool weather.

sharon

You can send some up this way lol!

Yes, please do send some up this way! But not this much ---->

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Twice this spring our yard flooded, the second time the yard was completely under 10 inches of water in two hours. Now, it's bone dry.

Karen

Geez Karen, that looks like a lake in your backyard.

Yup, and at the time I took that picture (looking out my home office window at the neighbor's house) it had been raining for only an hour. I was pretty scared, since our house sits on only a concrete slab, six inches above the ground. I have learned that a lot of my beds need to be raised to keep from drowning, especially during the winter when the rain has no place to go. Sigh.

Karen

That is how it was raining here, Karen, and it was sitting in the iris bed, but shortly after the rain stopped, it was drained, and they don't seem hurt. I hope you get enough rain, but nothing like that or like that or like Georgia got.
kay