Trash to Treasure Garden Update {4}

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Here it is. I know I am long overdue but here is July’s update for the Trash to Treasure Garden. We saw a lot of rain up here in the north and while it was good to have those rain days here and there, it wasn’t so good when it rained for days on end.  Last week we saw a really bad rain storm that resulted in golf ball size hail. The rain came down really fast and the wind was whipping through my trees. Branches went flying. I had a little laugh as I made a video for Mr. Yum who was away at camp with kiddo. I felt like I was back in Oklahoma in tornado alley. 

Here is a video of all the rain damage.

We’ve been able to salvage some zucchini, some tomatoes, cucumbers, some small potatoes, the last of the green beans and the wax beans. I have been sorting through the snap peas but a lot of them are bloated from the rain or dead from being on broken stalks. I am not sure if we are going to be able to salvage much else. There are some wax beans still hanging on. I think a squash. Some cucumbers are trying to survive. Potatoes need to grow a bit more, same for corn. I am not sure the eggplant are going to produce anything. I might get some more carrots. I am hoping for some more tomatoes.

While the garden is not a total loss, we have lost a considerable amount of food. Depending on how the rest of the season goes, we may or may not grow back our $200 spent on getting the garden in order.

Bummer.

 

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41 Comments

  1. I’m so sorry to hear about your garden trouble. It has been such a strange summer weather wise. I hope you at least grow back your investment!

  2. I’m so sorry to hear about your garden trouble. It has been such a strange summer weather wise. I hope you at least grow back your investment!

  3. We’ve had lots of rain here too. It destroyed our local farm’s patty pan squash that I love….hoping that we find it before the summer ends!

  4. We’ve had lots of rain here too. It destroyed our local farm’s patty pan squash that I love….hoping that we find it before the summer ends!

    1. It is still worth it. We still have a lot of fresh vegetables that are not treated with chemicals. So that in my book is still a success and we will make the money back in food that we spent on soil and seeds.

  5. Oh my goodness I’m sorry that really stinks! We had a loss in our garden as well, apparently some type of fungus attacked our tomato plants and it was almost a complete loss! We have to treat all the soil once I pull everything up as well!

  6. I have another blogger friend who lives in Michigan, that had his pepper crop just pelted. Some he was able to salvage, the rest was lost to hail damage. 🙁

    1. Thats awful. My peppers are little sprouts. I think they drowned in the first rain storm and now there hasn’t been enough sun to get them to grow up.

    1. It really is. This has been a very rainy summer. I can’t even keep up with the pool it has been raining so much. We haven’t been able to swim. I shock it after it rains and then it rains the next day.

    1. It is a bummer but I am still thankful for what food we were able to get. I still think we will have some growth with a few things like the carrots, corn and eggplant. Oh and the zucchini. So I am pretty sure we will grow our money back that we spent.

    1. I was really bummed out. But today we pulled out a lot of potatoes, I see the corn is still going, the eggplant is trying, my squash has new growth and the snap peas have a few new growths. I just wish it would stop raining!

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