Haven"t had much rain here since planting a few things a few weeks ago.
Last night a few heavy storms came through and its amazing how things perk right up after getting some real water.
Onions popped right through the soil and I can now see the the little tops and the brussels look much better too.
amazing..
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I'll +a million this! The first onions are starting to come through, the brussels sprouts shot up and are growing quick, even the plants that I've got hardened off and sitting on the front porch and looking happy, growing like crazy, and generally doing well!btrowe1 wrote:Haven"t had much rain here since planting a few things a few weeks ago.
Last night a few heavy storms came through and its amazing how things perk right up after getting some real water.
Onions popped right through the soil and I can now see the the little tops and the brussels look much better too.
amazing..
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It's true. We also had a 24 hour rain that has really deep soaked everything that needed it and the entire garden looks fresh and everybody looks as if they jumped in size.
...and another benefit: I had to MAKE myself come inside after gleefully pulling weeds and seedling weed trees and shrubs that come out like a charm out of the wet ground for hours and hours.
...and another benefit: I had to MAKE myself come inside after gleefully pulling weeds and seedling weed trees and shrubs that come out like a charm out of the wet ground for hours and hours.
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Aggreed a good rain there is nothing like.applestar wrote:It's true. We also had a 24 hour rain that has really deep soaked everything that needed it and the entire garden looks fresh and everybody looks as if they jumped in size.
...and another benefit: I had to MAKE myself come inside after gleefully pulling weeds and seedling weed trees and shrubs that come out like a charm out of the wet ground for hours and hours.
Apple could you gleefuly come and pull weeds at my house. Those pesky ones around the carrots and lettuce etc that are so hard to mulch.
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Hehehe! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of the weeds coming out of the ground easier than normal and spending about an hour, or more, attacking one of the flower beds to clear out part of it!applestar wrote:
...and another benefit: I had to MAKE myself come inside after gleefully pulling weeds and seedling weed trees and shrubs that come out like a charm out of the wet ground for hours and hours.
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This looks like a beautiful cover crop. Too bad it's just weeds:TheWaterbug wrote:Now I have 4000 sf of grown weeds to hoe down .
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3552590/LottaWeeds.jpg[/img]
I hoed out about 1/4 of it in 45 minutes this morning, but it's going to rain tomorrow, and I'm worried it will regrow faster than I can hoe it!
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Well, I got about half of that hoed out on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, but Wed night we got about 1/2" of rain, so it's all muddy right now, and I don't really feel like getting out there in the mud.
It's stopped raining, and it's supposed to warm up, so I fully expect an explosion of growth before I can get out there with the hoe again.
Maybe I should step up my efforts to [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=240561#240561]buy my own rototiller[/url].
It's stopped raining, and it's supposed to warm up, so I fully expect an explosion of growth before I can get out there with the hoe again.
Maybe I should step up my efforts to [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=240561#240561]buy my own rototiller[/url].
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We have not had much rain either and we just got one of those perfect slow light soaker rains and my broccoli just about jumped out of the ground it has doubled in size and I have 1/4 inch heads starting. It went from this.
[img]https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/Johnfor3/garden2012.jpg[/img]
To this in just over a week
[img]https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/Johnfor3/smallbox2010.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/Johnfor3/garden2012.jpg[/img]
To this in just over a week
[img]https://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/Johnfor3/smallbox2010.jpg[/img]
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3 hours and a handful of blisters later, it's mostly gone:TheWaterbug wrote:This looks like a beautiful cover crop. Too bad it's just weeds:TheWaterbug wrote:Now I have 4000 sf of grown weeds to hoe down .
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3552590/LottaWeeds.jpg[/img]
I hoed out about 1/4 of it in 45 minutes this morning, but it's going to rain tomorrow, and I'm worried it will regrow faster than I can hoe it!
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3552590/NoMoreWeeds_w.jpg[/img]
You can't really tell from the photos, but the tomatoes on the lower left have perked up, so the rain was good.