i don't think it's gone four days without rain since last septPINGING the Garden Thread Folks.... Thanks in advance if you can ping the List.
Weather patterns. In 2002 we had a drought, and then we had a fairly good Summers with pretty normal rainfall and last summer rained a lot and this summer it rained and we now have a dry spell and now it’s heating back up.
I live in Tidewater Virginia. So it’s actually heating back up right now it cooled off for a couple of weeks and I looked at the windy app and looked at the air currents and it’s just stuff coming up from the Gulf or predominant Highs coming down from the north and it is just weather patterns.
You don’t have good drainage. Must be very clay-heavy soil. You need to lighten it up by tilling in humus like peat moss and such, make it a nice loamy soil. It’s been raining cats and dogs down here in Queens, but I never have water puddling in my garden because I amended the soil before planting anything. Now it’s light and loamy, and I have gorgeous plants and flowers to prove it.
Most plants don’t like their roots to stay saturated. Mix in some more sand in your soil so it will drain better.
It reminds me of the beginning of the "little ice age", which started with an ugly cold wet spring, and famine resulting from the crop failure.
i don't think it's gone four days without rain since last septSame in Cincinnati...and the deer eating weeds, flowers, and scrapping new weeds seeds everywhere just makes it worse.
I had a fallow garden this year except strawberries...funny thing is I left them unprotected from deer or any mammals...no one ate them but me! Crazy.
In Western MA, the front lawn has been growing like a weed. Well, the weeds are growing. The grass seed was washed away.
But the reservoirs are full, so that’s good.
1. Root rot. from to much water as you say. Kratky method of planting so much easier for potted plants. Many variations of this.
2. The weeds are the wide or narrow leaf? and visa versa of your plants? if they're the opposite there could be run off of poisons.
3. Bugs attack specific types of plants.
A picture of a wilting leaves speaks a thousand words.
natural selection. the heartier Weeds will conquer your garden!!!!!
I live in the Finger Lakes too. While it is abnormal to a degree, it is not unusual and not the first time I have seen this sort of weather.
We get hot dry summers like two years ago when my lawn was simply burnt to a crisp and did, in fact, die because I cut it too short one weekend and it didn’t rain again until labor day.
I recall fishing on Lime Lake in early August of 1976 and seeing a few snow flurries with temps in the mid 40’s.
These are component parts of the averages. Some high, some low, and it all evens out over time.
Toss in the towel on your garden for this year and better luck next year.
Sorry to hear about your poor plants.
I wish I could offer some positive advice.
About your house plants dying, I think all that rain is a shock to them. If you still have any left alive, I would suggest taking them back inside until after the strong rains stop.
But I hope your other plants will make it through and recover, once the rain stops.
You obviously need the government to step in with a solution.
First step is grants to local universities to study the problem. We also need diversity consultants to verify that the university study is poperly representatives of the population and of those who are concerned. We also need a study on how many of the flowers you are growing are native and how many are invaders from Europe.
It is OK to genetically alter humans. But we need to verify that none of your flowers were genetically altered.
We also need a joint task force of the Agriculture Department, the EPA and the Bureau of Native American Affairs to study how we can work together for environmental sustainability.
And all that before we get to climate change. Obviously the failure of Republicans to spend more money, and to be more concerned, about climate change is at the root of the answer to your question.
I’m not a proponent of genetic modification; however, if they find the gene that makes weeds grow three times as fast as my flowers and veggies, count me in.
We’ve had an incredible amount of rain here in Ohio as well, and more coming all week long. This may be the rainiest spring I recall. Since I garden as well, I remember somewhat from year to year.
My garden is thriving, plants are huge. I’m kind of amazed its doing this well.
But, the weeds are the thickest ever, and I’ve spent a lot of time pulling and hoeing them.
Sorry yours is not doing well. Can’t figure out the houseplant issue.....strange.
I would also check and see if my house plants have good drain holes in the bottom of the pots. Sometimes, they don’t so that they drain water all over your house.
I am not a gardener but I did get a nice potted flowering arrangement as a gift.
I know they have to be watered but I saw so much rain that I guess when they have had enough rain and bring them back indoors so they don't get pelted to death and waterlogged.
They are thriving and they are flowering and beautiful. - Tom
It’s probably nature’s way of not allowing any surface to become a moonscape by shifting growing patterns around the earth regularly.