Nothing like a freak hail storm and a quick 1/2" of rain in

[UrbanFarmerJon]

This hit us 2 nights ago out of the blue, lasted less than 8 minutes.. lost a broccoli plant, but everything else seems to have recovered so far. With almost 3+ inches of rain in the last 4 days...in ready for some dry weather!

[imafan26]

You have too much rain and I have too little.

[applestar]

Yowza! -- glad to hear they are recovering...

[rainbowgardener]

Yeah, it just makes me crazy sometimes, with parts of the world drowning and other parts burning up for lack of water, that we can't find some way to even it out, or move water around better...

[gumbo2176]

I had some hail pass through my area several weeks ago and all I could think of was all the damage the last hail storm did. I lost my entire garden, foliage was stripped from trees, my roof had over 30 holes in it and my vehicles looked like they were parked on the field of a driving range.

Luckily it only lasted a few minutes and were no bigger than small marbles, so no real damage. But everytime I hear hail, my heart kind of sinks expecting the worst.

As for rain, we've been getting WAY too much. I don't have the figures, but May had to be one of the wettest on record for this area because I can't remember one being any wetter except for that one day in 1978 when a lot of the city flooded from a long torrential rainfall.

Your bottom picture looks like my entire garden has looked on several occasions the past 5-6 weeks. I'm truly surprised my plants don't come down with root rot from all the water.

[UrbanFarmerJon]

We have had almost 4" in the last week andanand a half. With more rain forecasted everyday through next friday. ... just replanted some more beets, spinach, carrots, Bush beans and the rest of the pole beans. These were ones that didn't sprout or git eaten by something.