[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

My seed starts are way behind schedule (2-3 weeks) but it is my own fault.

This is my 1st year in Texas and ai was over watering the peat pods worrying about the heat drying them out.

We are not yet moved into our new home (end of May apprently) and ai can only get out there 1/day (after work) M-Thur..

I dropped some coin on tomato and pepper plants and up-potted them.

I had the intention of dropping them all in the ground on Friday but decided to wait until Sunday morning (today.)

Boy was that lucky.

Huge hailstorm last night that wiped out my neighbor’s garden completely.

He oy has twigs left....

I did lose 3 windows on the North side of my house from the golf ball sized hail.

My metal shed has some dents, my greenhouse has about 200 dimples into he poly tubing cover and about 100 golf ball sized holes.

I should be able to repair the holes with greenhouse tape.

I only lost 3 plants to the hail....3 hailstones made it through poly tubing and smashed the plant. 2 pepper plants got whacked and one tomato plant.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Ern; Thats too bad about your greenhouse, but glad you held off on planting! Hail is bad. Not much you can do about it other than get a metal roof on house and out buildings.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You must feel like you’re settling the Prairie all over again!

Glad the damage wasn’t any worse. Hail is nasty stuff. We had a hailstorm quite a few years back and one of our local car lots got damaged. Big sale on ‘slightly dented’ cars a week later, though. ;) That must’ve been painful for them!