Gardening Interupted by rain tomorrow... AGAIN!

Planted about 110 plants today 50+ Tomato, 24 Broccoli, 8 Pepper, 12 Purple Cabbage, 8 Watermelon, & 8 cantalope. Still have about 30 Tomato, 6 Pepper, 8 Romaine Lettuce + Sweet corn, Beans, Carrots, Potatoes, Beets, Onions, & probably more. BUT rain in setting in early morning, & into the night tomorrow. Still have acres of Soybeans to plant too! Oh well.

(quoted from post at 22:27:23 05/28/19) Planted about 110 plants today 50+ Tomato, 24 Broccoli, 8 Pepper, 12 Purple Cabbage, 8 Watermelon, & 8 cantalope. Still have about 30 Tomato, 6 Pepper, 8 Romaine Lettuce + Sweet corn, Beans, Carrots, Potatoes, Beets, Onions, & probably more. BUT rain in setting in early morning, & into the night tomorrow. Still have acres of Soybeans to plant too! Oh well.

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Just the opposite here. I have not planted much as I am waiting on rain to settle the dust in my garden patch. Potatoes planted a month ago are just starting to show out of the ground. Planted another row this evening (still hopeful) and guess I'll have to set up the sprinkler system if I have any hope of beans and peas germinating. Driest I have seen in a long time.

Where do you guys live? I thought the entire country was wet!

Goodness no! Alabama is dry! Wettest January and February in years then may has been hot and dry. Mid 90's for 10-12 days and no rain in a couple weeks. None in 7 day forecast either.

(quoted from post at 11:00:57 05/29/19) Where do you guys live? I thought the entire country was wet!

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Rusty6 is Canadian SE Sask. Jim

I don't have a single plant in my garden here in NE Indiana. Can hardly keep up with my grass. Don't believe we have gone 3 days straight without rain since March 1st. No ag crops in around me for several miles.

I finally determined I was going to hit the garden with roundup and mud in my plants. Now it stays so wet the roundup would wash off. Grrr

Had a flat of plants for two weeks on my deck.Haven't had to water them yet.

We are getting the same weather we got last year . If we are lucky we will get two dry days followed by two to three days of rain. Some heavy like yesterday . Lots of flooding to the north of me about 12 to 18 miles away. State route 11 at U S 224 was under water , the Boardman Plaza on the east end was under water with water a foot up on the doors of the stores and cars in the parking lot up to the top of there tires. It is a loosen battle tryen to keep the wate level in my basement down . The War Dept is working here farthest county today , sure hope she went down 39 and not 800 , i will get the low down on how high the Tusky river is as i am dead sure that from Mineral City on down has the flood plane way up and the back road out of Sandyville is under about ten feet of water.

I mudded in a couple rows of potatoes two weeks ago and half mudded onions last night in the dry end of garden. Was mowing along wet end today and got too close, sucked me in and I got stuck with the Deere riding mower. Had to get the cub cadet to pull it out. That was a first. Put the lever part way in forward on Cadet and operated the foot control pedal on Deere and a little pushing too boot. Western Minn here.

I dusted in a row of beans yesterday although I think it might be a waste of time. I ran a hose from the hydrant over there so I can at least add water to the row in hopes they might germinate. 90 degrees yesterday with 17% humidity and wind sure takes the moisture up fast.

West MI here, half way between the Zoo and the lake, and let me tell you it's been miserable this May. Below normal temps all month, only 21% of available sun light, last ten days straight with measurable rain, 20 days of rain for the month, 2" above normal rain for the month and 4" for the year. Raining right now, more rain forecasted for tomorrow night into Saturday. Some thing has got to give! Alright already UNCLE! I said UNCLE! It has to stop now I SAID uncle!!!

I started six flats of tomatoes, peppers, and Zinnias, timed them so they'd be ready to transplant in mid May. There they sit on the porch yet. Well most of them, I started giving some away so they all don't go to waste. One guy plans to go with container gardening, I might put a few in containers myself at this point. My buddy up the road two miles is on higher sandy ground he has his garden in no problems. Must be nice to have soil with drainage, mines heavy clay and it's saturated, spade a hole and it fills with water. Guy up the road bought a new orchard sprayer and we're going to spray trees. Was looking at the apples and it looks like we'll be having a good year, lots of little apples already forming, except they're getting chewed up pretty good by pests. It looks like Sunday will be our best bet.
So anyway, that's the farm/gardening report for the end of May. On positive note, I think all this cold and rain has diminished the tick harvest this year, only found three on me so far.

JD

Should be a good year for grasshoppers here. They usually like it hot and dry. I've only ever sprayed for them once and don't want to do it again. Found this chart today showing the April May rainfall for the years 1988 to 2019. Its is metric of course but 25 mm equals one inch. It looks like this year is even lower than our all time low rainfall year of 1988.