It rained and Hailed here this morning. I ran to the garden to put buckets over some of my plants.
Which got me to wondering - which of your plants would you try to save if you could?
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Oddly enough, I had to make that choice the other day. We had a storm that brought with it a full 2" accumulation of small hail. I saved the bananas, the Dieffenbachia, all of my third-cycle roma tomato starts, and a pot of peppers. I lost my giant unknown gourd (it was way too big to protect), but oddly enough my strawberry tomatoes (10' tall) and tree tomatoes (5' tall) weathered it without losing a single leaf.
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I'm with soil, survival of the fittest.
But if I was to save something that would be my tomatoes, but some of them are over 7 feet tall so covering is not quite an option.
So back to survival of the fittest.
We had a hard core storm roll through this morning. No problems whatsoever int he garden. My neighbor lost a piece of his metal soffit on his garage, a bunch of stuff in my backyard was relocated but all the plants are good to go.
I guess my plants are the fittest since they survived.
But if I was to save something that would be my tomatoes, but some of them are over 7 feet tall so covering is not quite an option.
So back to survival of the fittest.
We had a hard core storm roll through this morning. No problems whatsoever int he garden. My neighbor lost a piece of his metal soffit on his garage, a bunch of stuff in my backyard was relocated but all the plants are good to go.
I guess my plants are the fittest since they survived.