The Good Lady and I had just finished a wonderful meal. Great salad from our garden with the help of the farmer's market.
We had already been experiencing smoky skies from the neighboring province of British Columbia forest fires. Which made it hard to see this storm cell come towards us.
Then it hit us!
Oh boy did we be get thunder F*****!
Before the storm the Good Lady and I were enjoying our back Yard.
The next morning here's how the main garden looked. The kale, strawberries, onions, spinach, tomato plants, and many other plant we're all decimated. We'll see what comes back.
There was still a mountain of hill this morning at the downspout from the house gutter.
Pepper plant with a broken main stem.
Hopefully the gladioluses will flower later in the season!
It's been in the low 30s (C°) for the last few days here. Just before making this post, I snapped a photo at about 3:00 p.m.
Still a bit of hail Unmelted at the gutter.
The Good ladies flowers took a s*** kicken. I usually don't buy store-bought flowers. I had to get her a bundle today at the shopping center.
Not sure we'll recover our investment this year as far as our garden.
But there's always next year, thankfully the farmers market is plentiful so far this growing season.
But on a positive no, it looks like they're still lots of kale for morning smoothies.
Only a few new dents in the truck. And buy all things considered. We get much worse hail storms in this area. There's usually a couple devastating storms each year.
Even though we took a good hit, I've seen a lot of suffering from hail storms in the area over the past few years.
Thanks for stopping in.
Pepper Dog Girls can't believe the flattened garden!
Dang, that is a hail storm.
I lost my peas and beans to the neighbor's crop duster.
The okra was stunted and the radishes didn't notice.
Didn't see that coming.
I'll have to watch for it next year.
Not cool, if I follow you correctly, is that mean the crop duster is blowing chemicals onto your plot.
Not cool at all!
Yeah, it killed some of the weeds in the yard, so it was a trade off.
The 4sq miles around me are almost totally crop land, it looks like a hazard I will have to prepare for next year.
Maybe next year the power structure will have changed and organics will make a comeback.
It is not easy to protect the garden in this way as we can see in the pictures that a lot of hard work has been done to protect them which makes them look very good they have to be watered on time. And there are many things to be taken care of. If a plant gets damaged, it has to be sidelined otherwise it will damage all the other plants. Due to the hail Storm, the way we are seeing that there is a lot of snow, due to which the plants have been damaged and there must have been damage, because the same thing happened here a few months ago today. Many items were damaged.
I'm sorry to hear you got some damage too.
It's been a couple days now and some of the plants are on the mend. Fingers crossed we still have a bountiful harvest!
Thanks for stopping in and all the helpful advice!
When a person works so hard and then the plants get damaged, the heart of a person gets a little damaged, but still a person should not stop working.
Such setbacks (from heaven) are not entirely unknown to me either. It's just that I have large gardens and a vineyard.
I can tell you (as far as vegetables are concerned) that most varieties will recover. Cut the leek in half. This will also give them more volume. Cut off the affected lettuce of the salad, so that only the heart remains. It will then grow back normally. As for the peppers and tomatoes, you now know that they should be given a stake sooner rather than later.
Thank you for this helpful information! I wish had more of a green thumb like my grandfather. I will make sure I put a steak next to the tomatoes and peppers in the future. Likely would have saved some damage.
Also, thank you for sharing this photo of your piece of paradise.
I should make more time to try to find info on your garden and vineyard!
Not in the future. Right now. You can't imagine the self-healing powers of a plant. Especially as you can harvest peppers right up to the first frost.
As for my gardens, fruit trees and vineyard, I tend to limit myself to helping others by following their posts.
But from time to time, I'll send you a few snapshots.
Oh. It seems the storm created an impact greatly there. Disaster always hampers in that way. I just hope that everything will be back to normal within a short time.
Thank you for your kind word! The garden's already starting to mend a little bit.
Fingers crossed we don't get it again!!