Larry,

I hope your garden dries out quickly enough that the plants pulls through and produce well.

I have had plants survive an amazing amount of moisture in the past, even though the ground stayed fully saturated for six weeks and developed that yucky, mucky sour smell. The plants in grade-level beds survived just as well as those in raised beds. During the worst time frame, we received 12.89" in one day, and then had regular rainfall for weeks afterward. I thought my whole garden would drown, but it didn't.

We have had 4 storms this spring with hail. The most recent one was earlier this week and it did more damage than the other three combined. In our garden, the lettuce, onions, leeks and one row of potatoes had the worst damage. The hail also knocked most of the surviving fruit off the trees, leaving me with little to no fruit on 3 of the 4 fruit trees. Between all the hail storms and high wind, I have almost no fruit left. I hate hail!

Dawn

With the last downpour i am finally able to walk through my garden. It is packed tight, and i still need to finish planting/replanting.

The cool nights and all the moisture is what is worring me. I hope we dont have another blight outbreak like we did 2 yrs ago.

But i'm still not complaining about getting the rain.

Excess moisture isn't really an issue for my plants (would still like to see more rain here actually), but the cool nights are concerning me a little. Should I be taking steps to protect my tomato plants if the low temperature gets down to 40 degrees?

Another question that has been rolling around in my head is this: how do you feed your tomatoes and other veggies when the rainfall is keeping everything wet? I bought the Miracle Grow plant food that dissolves in water and I know my tomatoes need it, but the ground is still pretty moist yet. Do I feed them anyway?

Miraje, I am in the same boat. I plan on watching my plants closley and spray a light feeding of Miracle Grow if they need it. I expect I may have some damaged roots and it may stress the plant if conditions are not just right. Right now the plants look better than expected, for me, now its just wait and watch.

Larry