Just missed us here in Eden Prairie - heard the sirens from a few miles north, but the storm bypassed this area. The two inches of rain we got during the past 24 hours just soaked right into the ground - hostas and other plants all look pretty happy here.

Sorry for your hail damage . . . what a bummer.

I put slug bait down right as the snow was melting (Sluggo -- we have two dogs) in March. I saw some slimey trails a couple of days later. I have put two more applications of Sluggo down and haven't seen any trails since. What's really awesome is that this is the first year that my Jacob's Ladder's are flourishing. I noticed blooms on one today.

However, I didn't plan on the rabbits, so I have lots hostas with leaves that have the ends chewed off. I'll be better prepared next year for the rabbits.

Sorry to hear about your hail damage. I feel your pain :)

Drove through plenty of hail this afternoon but a very quick glance around the yard looks like it missed us out here in the boonies. Will have to take a closer look tomorrow. Just at home briefly between graduations to make sure we didn't have water coming into the basement and was getting dark by the time we got home from the 2nd one.

Our rain stopped mid-afternoon and we didn't get anything this evening. I was watching it on TV though.

Sorry to hear about your hail. And I feel your rabbit damage. I need to re-spray since the rain. Somehow, they've found a way thru the chicken wire.

Talking about hail damage. Yesterday at a 6 Flags park I saw a black car with evenly dented roof, trunk and hood, looking like it had chicken pox or HVX. The people must have got the windshield replaced and are driving it!

I live in Orono, a western suburb of Minneapolis, and my yard is devastated. My beautiful hostas are in shreds. The whole yard is covered with leaves and twigs from the canopy of trees above us.

I had just finished planting annuals and mulching in between the rain showers yesterday, when at 6:00, all hail broke loose. The sound was so loud, I thought our skylights were going to break. We had mostly marble-sized hail, but some of it was golf ball-sized too. The lake behind us looked like it was being hit by machine gun fire.

I'm trying to keep a positive attitude. I keep reminding myself that at least my house isn't under water like in the south or obliterated like those in Japan, but it is so discouraging and disheartening. I hope Jim and Sheila Hartmann didn't get hit again like last year. They live in the western metro too.

Oh, well, there's always next year.

We have had hail here twice this spring, but each time it was brief and sl less than pea sized. So I was happy to dodge that bullet.

Well, I spoke too soon. Hail rolled thru last night around midnight. I've not yet walked thru the gardens, but an initial scan with the binoculars shows little damage. By the sounds of it, it sounded like BB to pea size.

Apple Valley got hail, small but fierce enough to knock many leaves off trees. Hostas are standing and look fine from a distance, but many leaves with holes or splintered....2.5 inches of rain over the last day or so and more expected.

Roseville had some tiny hail yesterday - no damage. Today, however, we had wind with the tiny hail which did cause some damage, but not to my hosta. Flowering crab lost most of its blossoms and tulips were beat to the ground. Both were past there prime so I don't feel so bad.

Rabbits have done a number on a couple of my hostas too. I wonder if planting "Guacamole" and "Pineapple Upsidedown" is kind of asking for it. Has anyone else noticed a correlation between tasty names and rabbit damage?

Sorry to here about hail damage.
Beverly