Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Flood Insurance?

As the photos below show care should be given when planting in a known flood plain -- granted it only floods when more than 4" of rain falls in less than a 24 hour period. Of course blame global warming or my opinion just the natural progression and change of the earth's weather patterns but this flood pattern seems to be more and more prevalent.

Note: the potatoes, onions, beets and kohlrabi are safe! The peppers and tomatoes would be too if we hadn't had a late May frost!

Most of the pumpkins and squash seem OK too.
Not that you can see it in these pictures but it doesn't help that the drain intake over by the tracks sits up two feet higher than the garden and surrounding land - seriously whats the point of having an intake drain? So, all the land to the North drains into our beautiful garden and sits.


1 comment:

Mom said...

Well, of course the Kohlrabi plants are OK!!!