Posted on 06/16/2019 11:44:52 AM PDT by dayglored
I'm in PA and I have bamboo on the property. It's pretty pushy stuff, grows and spreads very fast.
My yard's on a terraced hill, with a garden laid out by a horticulturalist who found it wild and built his house and business here, so the drainage is what it should be. My neighbor down the road is not so lucky with his part of the hillside.
Get a landscaper who knows what he's doing. And get him soon because dead vegetation is going to make things worse. Healthy plants help absorb that water (up to a point).
Sounds to me, that its going to be a great year for apples.
The problem is that the rain water is leaching all the nitrogen out of the soil. Plants need nitrogen generated by bacteria in the soil to catalyze enzymes during photo-synthesis. Try adding a nitrogen rich fertilizer to the soil.
Dammed global warming strikes again.
Queens is mostly clay.
I think my place is quite near the Queens terminal moraine. Tried to find a map which showed both the terminal moraine AND the streets, but could not. So I can’t tell if I’m in the lee of it or north of it.
LOL. 30 Feet.
Our area of the Ozarks is at least 12” ahead of normal for the year so far. We have been getting rain often but usually only an inch or two at a time. The end of April 2017 we got 14.5 inches in 36 hours. Our 2 year old river cabin was built a foot above the previous record, but it had 6.5 feet of flash flood water running through it. Thank God there was minimal loss of life in spite of the massive flooding.
The watery bombardments from the sky are wiping out the white-sand beach afternoons, the backyard bbq's, the holiday patio parties, the suntanning, the tropical bird-watching, the fishing and sail-boating on the azure tides of the Gulf, the shopping in the tourist traps, the Mai-Tais under the palm tree........bah humbug! Things are really so DARN tough.....
Jupiter Pluvius, STOP IT ALREADY YET !!!!
Leni
Major tick year .... good time to have chickens (they eat ‘em). I, unfortunately, do not have chickens - relatives do & you can walk in their yard & not get ticks. Anywhere else, check yourself carefully!
I sympathize with you. Here in western Pennsylvania we’ve been getting at best a couple of days a week all spring when it isn’t raining. The same conditions last year. We can’t mow our lawn because it’s sopping wet. There’s an actual stream running through the backyard from the rain that fell all last night and this morning. I’m surprised our newly-planted junipers aren’t dying. Rain is predicted here, an 80% chance, every day and night this week. All week long. I’m sick to death of rain.
My guess is heavy rains and high humidities occur going into the glacial period or dipping back into that period. The oceans control everything mid term. Rain represents heat leaving the oceans as water vapor. So it rains like crazy going in due to heat leaving the oceans. Energy is always entering the oceans due to visible sun light. So global cooling must require the rejection of that sunlight from the oceans. Ie - it rains like crazy.
It is cooler and wetter than normal here in northern CO.
It’s weather.
FOOL! it’s global warming!
I’m going to try a version of your garden next year as I can no longer get on my hands and knees to do gardening. I also shared your post with my bil. He did the 5 gallon buckets this year but he built a table to put his on.
Thanks for posting. :)
Do your pots have holes in the bottom, so the water can drain out? If not, the roots are sitting in water.
They’re drowning & rotting.
Plus, you need to feed your potted plants.
I put a layer of chopped-up leaves & grass clippings in pots
I add a sprinkling of Osmocote no more than 1X per week.
I have tons of tomatoes & bell peppers in pots, even with too much rain lately.
For your lawn, mowing is key, which is tricky in rainy season.
Tall, wet grass/ weeds clog your mower, so it’s tempting (to me, at least) to wait until the grass dries out.
Big mistake— because when the weeds grow high, they go to seed.
Then, when you mow, you’re just sowing all those weed seeds back into the soil, resulting in more weeds that choke the good plants.
Mow ASAP when rain stops, when weeds are short, before they produce seeds.
What’s going on? A wet spring.
Waaaaahhh!
Last year I had one group....I swear it had 10 male flowers to 1 female flower. Produced practically nothing.
They like warmth.
We did 4 Earth Boxes on my daughter's patio. Her hubby hooked up an irrigation system on a timer. The plants are doing spectacular as they're protected from the nasty winds we have had.
We need some sun to make everything grow like crazy.
Whaaaaat? Yikes!
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