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I thought my garden was washing away! Part 3 of July 18th flood. Garden tour in the rain continues from Part 1. City girl urban gardener turns late bloomer homesteader! Subscribe so you won’t miss out!
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43 Comments
Oh how awful! I pray you don't lose your whole garden. I tend my garden like a new born baby, if that happened to me I would be devastated!
Kaye I think rather than quantity you need to focus on getting thing growing up on the trellises and growing on mounds
Congratulation on your cistern filling so happy!
Rain is glorious when so many of us are in drought conditions.
Plants will survive and thrive. Almost need to mow more frequent- a riding lawn mower you need. Good you are watching your water drainage issues. I can only image what flows under your house. Will you be putting in more drainage behind the house.
….and that's why we mound them and dig the rows downhill. They did their job! Yay! It's going to happen with the kind of rain we've been getting. If you find the magic potion that kills poison ivy and not the garden, please share! If I could sell poison ivy, I'd be a rich woman!
Happy to say we here in the Mohave Desert had a bit of rain last 2 days. Just sprinkles where I live but probably steady in the mountains above us. All will help keep Lake Mead steady at best and so far, no loss in water there Sat. to Sun. this past weekend. That is great!
I guess I just don't understand why you are planting on a hill to begin with. Maybe you have a master plan that takes care of your erosion issues. It's disheartening to see all the work you are doing to tame the land and then see it take hit after hit. Ouch! I'm feelin' ya!
Is there a way make swells to divert the water from your garden
Freeze small harvests for batches. Elderberries freeze and dehydrate well. Many fruits and veggies do. I've got lots of cherry tomatoes
At least you are getting rain, here in Texas dry as a bone !
If the light green leaves have darker veins in their middle it's a sign of Iron chlorosis. I use Espoma Organic Iron-tone to correct Iron Deficiency (Chlorosis). The washout isn't too awful bad really. I know it can be heartbreaking! I have my garden wash out too. Even though I've put in french drains and creek beds, built a bridge to cross over … I still get washed out when we get too much rain at once. Gardening on a slope is hard. I still have a lot of work to do to control the water flow and seems you do to. BUT, it's getting better! O, Kaye, I know you don't agree with me, but RoundUp controls my poison ivy. It's the only thing that does. Using it responsibly in late evening after the bees have gone to bed and not on a windy day will do it. At first, I had so much poison ivy it was climbing up trees, and covering the ground seeding itself and crawling under ground. But after dealing with it for several years, I rarely have to spray anymore. If I see a little spot getting started, out comes the RoundUp. I'm happy that I don't have to use it so much anymore. But, poison ivy spreads, blooms and then seeds so easily. I HAD to do something! You can kill off the leaves, but the ground roots only grow back twice as much. It has to be eradicated deep inside the plant at the roots.
Even with the economic fluctuation, I’m so excited I’ve been earning $45,000 from my $10,000 investment everyday 10days.
Your garden looks wonderful. More mulch spread out and grab your pick and dig a couple of gullies to send water away from your veggies
You should connect with “she is of the woods” to learn tinctures, balms, teas, etc and such she’s awesome with herbs
Good thing about this visual documentation is that you can now analyze exactly where the water flowed and plan garden hardscaping accordingly.
I have more poison ivy this year than ever before. Not happy about that. Bad mosquito year too. Keep smiling!
We wish we had your rain issue in California. Thankfully you did some terracing and planted in hills. Your plants will be fine. At least now you can see where the run off is and you can tackle that in the nicer weather.
I am thinking raise beds would be best! It’s very rainy where I like too! When I move I will be putting in raise bed has soon, as I can!
First time planting on land that had never been planted before. It takes a couple of years of trial and error for you to learn your land and then plant according to what you’ve learned You’ve done amazing work Kay. Don’t be discouraged. Welcome to the life of a farmette owner
Be thankful for the rain. SoCal is as dry as you can imagine. I'd give anything for rain like this. The smell after a rain too is so fresh. Your garden will be fine
Good educational video and also all of the surprises that brought joy.
We have had our concrete storage tank repaired and sealed and for the first time in 16 years it is overflowing…next job..put a pipe on the overflow and catch the run off
They will be Fine better than NO Rain….Replant as needed….Wait until it over assess the Damage replace as needed no big Deal Always Plant more than needed. Only thing that requires immediate repair is water inside the House…Relax God works in weird ways sometimes… As Neighbors for suggestions I'm sure they went thru it before….And you may make a friend and get unasked for help….
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Wow Kay,I'm so sad for you. That's awful. Wish I were closer,I would bring you veggies and fruit!! You know how to can,so it wouldn't go to waste. So sorry. Ugh. Here in Gettysburg it's the opposite. No rain. My stuff is shriveling up. Thank God at least for our hose. We water once a day at least.
Thankfully my little neck of the woods, TN is finally getting some of that rain. I've literally watched the storms headed straight for us and it just splits on half and goes around us🤦. Since all my veggies are planted in buckets and raised beds the only thing that's washing away is my freaking driveway…it WAS just one side, NOW it's both sides that I have a water "rut" and can't seem to find ANYONE to come fix it and deliver gravel!! You'd think in this economy people would NEED the work!! Wishing you good luck and some drying out of your fields 🙏❤️🙏
Be careful, Kay. It seems like we usually have too much or not enough rain! I have not been home a lot since the beginning of March because we gained 2 grand babies. My garden is in pots so not sure how well we are going to do. South Dakota has a short season on top of not having the best conditions! I know it is too much rain but I still love the sound 😊 Love, Connie from South Dakota!
Oh my, that looks like a creek running down your garden. Your reactions are so entertaining and make me laugh because it's the same things I'd say even if there was no one around to hear me say them.
Good that you've put the sweet potatoes 🍠 on mounds 👍 It's the right time to check how the water flows and make swales as we see in permaculture. We have a problem with drought and heatwaves and we would love to have some rain. It's never the way you want it to be 🤔 How do you manage that your camera 🎥 lens doesn't get wet?
Hi My Darling so sorry you are getting all that Rain x Some are Praying for Rain others Sun.. Farmers are suffering x We had the Hottrst Day on Record last week. Heartreaking to see all that Water x Your Cats really are Adorable they love you so much x Keep Safe love Nana x
Melons LOVE water. Beans love water also. Garden will be fine. It will thrive. Give them a fish fertilizer treatment (beans) or put grass clippings and the nitrogen will pop them back to deep green. What you are putting on the garden is straw not hay. If you are truly concerned dig a big trench around your garden. I think you are still used to Cali no rain climate. (Not meant in a bad way. ) I adore you Kaye. What a fabulous sistern. (not sure how to spell it) Lol Plant some rudebeckia (black eyed susans) near your milk weed and watch the monarchs and all kinds of humming birds and butterflies arrive. LOVE LOVE LOVE the sound of the rain. LOVE LOVE LOVE the sounds of the Cidada's too. Thanks for the video.
Wow wow wow…were those cabbages or cauliflower? BEAUTIFUL. I am so jealous. I can't grow cabbage to save my soul.
No rain for 2 months does the same.
You need to consider a hoop house/grow tunnel. Also check out No-till Growers. They talk a lot about how to orient your beds for water flow and putting in perennial borders that can help prevent the kind of wash you’re seeing.
Well …I think your garden will be ok..The water has a path that it is using to get out of the garden..Could be worse.. That water could be just standing..
All those pathways act like runoff channels which is water that should be retained so try planting bee balm blue star sea Holly and other deep root penetrating pollinating attracting nitrogen fixing perennial plants to slow down the wind suck up the water and retain it… I planted four variations of clover throughout all of my garden space that it's growing under tomatoes I have sunflowers with beans growing up the stock and squash growing through the stocks multi-species attracting multiple pollinators and good insects.. the rabbits eat the clover and leave some of my other plants alone okay I'm lying they still eat the sweet potatoes
The foam is the liquid carbon exuding from the root tips of your plants… It feeds the microbiology but in your case it's washing away
This is the main reason I use raised beds
elderberries usualy arnt ready till end of August early September!
Best time to pull the weeds out. It comes out easily. Soaking is not a bad thing. You need a berm around the orchard to catch the water and a way to water your fruit trees. Harvest the cabbages before the crack. Sauerkraut….yummo!
Your garden looks great considering all the rain.
Oh no! your heavenly garden, you will receive "Abundantly" Shalom🍉🍏🥬🌻
The 'relative of quinoa' looks like lamb's quarters. When it pops up I'm happy because it's my favorite cooked green. Cooked leaves are like spinach, only better, and tender stems are like a delicate broccoli. Pigweed is wild amaranth and it makes good greens too. Not sad my first garden in a new place didn't do well because the wild plants already growing there are as good or better than most crops and are much less work too.