After Floyd
Hi all,
Just now I am watching the last of Floyd pass by. The heaviest rains are
now gone but left quite a bit of standing water. The ground was already
saturated from the recent rains of Dennis.
Most of the veggie garden is in pretty good shape, but to my horror my
little lettuce seedlings were standing in water. During a break in the rain
I went out into the wind to broaden and deepen the trench on two sides of
the lettuce patch, and it worked! The excess water has drained away to
reveal that most of baby lettuce is still there.
Unfortunately, I don't see any sign of my chard seedlings. This was already
the third planting. The first seedlings succumbed to a late heat wave, the
second planting was lost to a week of rain from Dennis (damping off). Next
year I will start my fall chard in flats and transplant later.
That's all for now.
Pat
Zone 7, Maryland
