Posted on 05/09/2014 10:16:25 AM PDT by rightly_dividing
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“along with some winter lettuce.”
What do you call “winter lettuce”? Is there a certain kind?
I got 4 7/10 inches. I’ll get an update of weather from Weather Channel in about 10 minutes.
sockmoney, the tomato with the break bent, so I’ve straightened it up. I need to use a bit of duct tape on that break. The rest of the plants look fine after the pounding rain.
Oops, I guess I should've mentioned that when mine broke, after I taped it back together at the break, I took a bungee cord, and basically put one hook end around the top of the plant, then bungee'd it to the tomato cage next to it so it would be immobilized where the break was. I would think stakes, and velcro tape could do the same thing.
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“One lady from our neighborhood said the streets were flooding around Marcella’s area. It floods easily there though, poor drainage.”
Yes, more water flows into that intersection than the drain can handle. That water can’t get into any building, it’s just in the street until the rain lessens, then it drains out quickly.
“I took a bungee cord, and basically put one hook end around the top of the plant, then bungee’d it to the tomato cage next to it so it would be immobilized where the break was. I would think stakes, and velcro tape could do the same thing.”
I did that. This big container was made for tomatoes and there is a lattice on that container so I took a padded twist tie and hooked that to the lattice but that wasn’t enough to stop the bend last night. I have some thin wire stakes designed to be right next to the stalk of a plant so I’ll take one of those and twist tie that plant to that to prevent it from moving again.
OK, I’ve got it fastened to the thin metal stake on both sides of the break and up from that - the plant isn’t going to move again.
We got around 3” also. Everything is green, and the ground is moist. The plants are loving it. I won’t have to run the irrigation system for a few days now. That makes life easier!
So glad you (and me, too) finally got a decent rain. As heavy as it was, it didn't wash all the pecan catkin/pollen things off my roof. I look like I have a thatched roof it is so covered.
In my Donkey Dreams, it would rain like that one or two days a week, and no mosquitoes would be appearing next week.
So, if there were some major rain/flooding event you'd be stuck there?
—and no mosquitoes would be appearing next week. —
You do dream big!
One side of I-45 was shut down, neighbor described it as a parking lot, the other side was moving, but the feeder road was a lake, according to her at 1am when she had to go after her daughter. This was just north of town. I watched the radar along that time and that area was hit far worse than we were. One neighbor up the street from me said he had 8”
I just went out to water the pups and everything looked pretty well saturated. Unlike yourself, my roof did get washed clean.
I suspected the creek would be up by past observations, and it may have gotten even higher after I was there. This entire subdivision drains into it, in one place or another. It never rained hard, just for a long time. It must have rained 8hrs. That is why I did not see any damage.
“So, if there were some major rain/flooding event you’d be stuck there?”
I’ve never seen it high enough to stop a car going through there, but I guess it’s possible - instead of turning right to go to that intersection from my house, I’d turn left and go that way to get out, no problem.
Yep, you live in a different world than I do, not many miles from you. It started raining at the time I went to bed and from my bedroom window, I see the back garden and a light stays on out there until the timer cuts it off. When I look out, I see the roof right below the window that is over the lower deck and see the whole garden. That roof was being pounded by very heavy rain and there was lightning and I could hear the pounding rain going on until I went to sleep.
I woke up at 3:30 hearing pounding rain and went downstairs to be sure everything was okay down there. In 2012, a critical piece inside my chimney fell and water came inside the living area after a six inch rain and I haven't trusted rain to stay outside since then. The chimney was fixed, of course, but I still remember that water in the house. I even put two water alarms around that chimney just in case...
In a word: Ducks.
I haven’t had a bug issue since I started raising ducks. The chickens eat a lot of bugs too.
You are a total peach! Thank you!
Your 100% right, 10 miles is another world when it comes to thunderstorms.
What I call a hard rain is getting 3 or 4 inches in an hour.
Rain since midnight-
http://water.weather.gov/precip/
Do you happen to have a homebrew recipe for flea killer. We have never had fleas on her dogs, till this puppy. She gets fleas just going outside to water. My wife just killed 18 fleas on her. Everyday we kill fleas. We need a dip, of something. This commercial spray will kill them if you can find them and squirt each one.
https://twitter.com/HellerWeather/status/466710114628820992
You might want to think about putting frost cloth over any peppers you have outside especially. It’s not going to freeze, but peppers resent temps below 50ish or so and will sull and delay production if they get too cool as seedlings.
Eggplants and okra too resent anything below 60 but especially below 50.
Just sayin’.
If you have spare, cover your maters too. They will appreciate it. They’re not as sensitive to cold as the peppers though so cover them last IF you have enough for the aforementioned stuff.
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