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playing in the mud

11 years ago

I am going to be gone for a few days and it is going to rain for another 4 or 5 days and i had 10 tomatoes to plant, I got a piece of plywood to kneel on and planted tomatoes in the mud.. I had tilled the ground 2 days ago and it is loose then rained about 3 hr last nite. I will have to work it later to keep it from packing that part of my garden is becoming soup.If they do okay it will be great if not I have 65 others that i cannot get the cages on.

It look like some my tomatoes were showing signs of too much water with the leaves trying to curl

Comments (5)

  • 11 years ago

    I hope you are able to enjoy your few days away. It is likely to rain the whole time you are gone. I think we all will be in the same boat with unhappy plants that are getting too much moisture.

    I worked really hard to get cages on all my tomato plants before they got too big for the cages, and I had to stand in 2" of water to do some of that. I hate getting too much rain at one time. It makes gardening so much harder.

    I still have a dozen back-up plants in the greenhouse. I carry them outside during the day so they can have full sun without the heat created by the greenhouse effect. I'm clinging to them like a security blanket in case a storm destroys my garden, but they won't be happy in their smallish containers much longer. I need to put them in bigger containers or something.

    This is starting to remind me of 2013 when we had about 13" of rain in May. Or, maybe it was June. I'd have to look back and see. The plants suffered greatly, but then the summer turned hotter and drier and they recovered a great deal.

  • 11 years ago

    with my ground about 2 wks without moisture and i am in trouble it is thin uphill sandy loam blackjack country with clay about foot under the surface


  • 11 years ago

    I don't think you're going to go 2 weeks without moisture for a while. My back garden is mostly uphill sandy loam too, with clay along one side of it. That sandy soil is a lot better than the front garden's amended clay, but it does dry out a lot more in summer and I have to irrigate more often.

    I wish some of this spring's excessive rainfall could wait and fall in July and August when we will need it more than we need it now.

    Hard, hard rain is falling here now. I barely had time to run outside and pour last night's 2.4" out of the rain gauge before this new batch of storms arrived. I'm starting to wish I'd planted my tomato plants on top of our two-story house.

  • 11 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I pray for one good rain in august to start the cooling process and so my tomatoes will reset and reproduce into the fall. my irrigation never comes close to what a good rain will do It rain last nite and this morning every seep, wet weather spring and soft spot is running water I have not seen this much moisture in maybe 10yrs.

  • 11 years ago

    This is reminding me more and more of 2007 and that wasn't the best year for gardens because they stayed waterlogged. All I remember is incredibly damaging flooding across a large portion of the state. I guess we'll deal with what we get, one way or another, but I'm wishing I had planted the garden on top of the roof or something. The plants I have in raised beds ought to be able to handle another 6-10" of rainfall in May, but I don't know how they'll do if it stays really wet in June. The plants at grade level are in trouble already, but they are mostly just the mid-season corn, flowers and herbs----things that we can live without if they stay too wet and die.