Severe storms roared through the area last night dumping hard rain, strong winds and at times hail on our farm. The good news was that my little garden collection was snugly nestled up against the house on the front porch and not already in the garden. My tomatoes, peppers, additional onions cabbage, broccoli and basil are unharmed and ready to go back out in the sunshine awaiting their day to be set out in the big garden.
O Wise One and I have been working furiously to get the grass under control and keep it that way with all this rain. Many days both of us can be found riding one mower type or another or pushing a weed trimmer.
The good news is that this is producing lots of grass clippings for the compost piles.
And once it dries it provides mulch for the grape and blackberry arbors. The bad news is that this Monday morning it continues to rain off and on with rain also in the forecast for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and next Sunday.
We did get all our downed tree branches from the last storm burned. Now we have a whole new batch : ) We also managed to get quite a bit of our garden planted during the few days of dry weather that we did have.
On the bright side of things I think our drought like conditions are over for the moment. I am hoping that it doesn't do like last year and just stop raining about June!
Is everyone else in the drought ridden areas getting plenty of rain?
Blessings from The Holler
The Canned Quilter
Most of IN had flooded when that winter storm came through, so I think we've caught up. Glad to see youve overcome and catching up.
ReplyDeleteWe had some localized flooding in the low lying areas then also.
Deleteyep we were in a drought for two years and we are officially past the drought-yeah-last summer was just awful near 100s or over 100 most of the summer-with no rain. so no food for the wildlife and no domestic fruits either. we are waiting for the next round of storms to approach-these could be pretty bad-coming in from oklahoma.
ReplyDeleteour grass here is so tall-as we have nothing working at the moment-hubby worked a week on the tractor and the mower-and the mower needs and expensive part, so now that its raining we will decide what to do after all these storms move out
We struggle also with keeping those mowers running. It seems as if there is always something that needs something fixed. There are those days that I dream of a little bitty city lot and fishing all day : )
DeleteGlad your tender plants weren't in the ground when the hail hit. they keep predicting drought around our Country House but it hasn't hit ... yet. Do you rake your grass by hand? I would love to have that much green stuff to put in my compost bin! At our City House, we are surrounded by trees that are continually losing limbs with each passing storm, or sometimes a shower is all it takes.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child our house was surrounded by huge pecan trees and their limbs are the worst. We rake our grass with a pull behind leaf rake that we pull behind our Cub riding lawn mower,we empty it in piles and then pick them up with an old wooden trailer pulled behind the little farm truck or 4wheeler.
DeleteMay your weather stay mild.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear your drought may be over. Hope it's an easy rain with no serious flooding. ♥
ReplyDeleteI hope your drought is over.. your pastures are beautiful & green...
ReplyDeleteWe've been drier than normal here in NE Ohio.. We finally got some rain today though.. I hate to complain but Im gonna have trouble planting my garden now..It was tilled up & now its probably like a rock again. I knew it was going to happen but I had to help out a friend today.. We're supposed have a good chance of rain all week & weekend long.. I hope we get it except on Sunday, which is when we're hosting a bbq.. ;)