We tried to fix the water-in-the-garden issue, but Mr. Dark Sky fought back with all he had. This whole torrential-rain-every-other-day, whip-the-wind-around, and drop-some-hail thing...I get it.
Someone really doesn't want me to have a garden this year.
Walking the fence line after all these storms might soon require a raft.
And we recently learned that when we get a lot of rain...
...the groundwater seeps in and fills up the gutters of the barn.
Is this normal? Because I must have missed this chapter in the "First Year on a Farm" Manual.
But you know us farmish folk. We won't let us get it down. Because even though constant rain will kill your garden, it makes for one heck of a lot of fun with the four wheelers.
Yep, after the storms...we have fun.
I think the state of that farmboy's shirt says it all. :)
Oh my heart goes out to you! This could be a picture from our garden the last 11 years! Although this year we are at the opposite end and very dry. There is a first time for everything. I learned long ago on the farm that weather is one thing I really have no control over, although my OCD mind tells me I can! Hope you dry out soon. I enjoyed your blog.
ReplyDeleteIt sure is easier to deal with if you realize you can't control the weather! Thanks for your kind thoughts, and I truly hope that you have success with your garden this year!
DeleteWe have few really flat spots here but Dad was always digging little drainage ditches to pull the water away from places he didn't want it. You will just have to built up that garden with mounds of organice gold and next year the water will go around it.
ReplyDeleteWe've had no rain yet and things are looking very dire for the garden and the pastures.
I have learned something since moving here (that you referenced) - flat land fills with water! We definitely have to re-think for next year. :)
DeleteI hope those farm boys are learning to add laundry to fun also. LOL. Looks like you need some drain lines around the garden or change plans to make that a pond.
ReplyDeleteA pond would be more productive at this point. We could stock it with fish and the boys could bring in dinner for us!
DeleteHa ha ha ha! Leave it to the kids to love the mud and water.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to see the over-flow in the garden though. Gosh, that is a lot of water. We have one area that does that too, and last year lost a lot of the garden.
The kids were only carrying out Dad's suggestion to go "run the wheelers in the mud and make sure they work..."
DeleteSo is the amount of rain you are receiving a usual thing? Is it always this much so fast? Can not believe the standing water you have. My goodness. Hoping for days to come filled with sunshine and blue skies for you.
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ReplyDeleteOh, Mama! I feel your pain. It seldom happens here in the NW but we had one of those the other day--1" rain in 30 minutes. We had lakes on the sides of hills! And all I could say (I was thinking of your flat ground) was, "I'm SO glad we live in hilly country so the water has some place to go!"
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DeleteHello Mama! the above link shows a garden made inside a large rectangle of straw bales. I thought of you. Hope the link works.
Thanks for your suggestions! We certainly have to figure SOMETHING out for next year. Who knew that flat land could be so wet? (Ok, apparently a lot of people...but I didn't!)
DeleteThere is nothing like a little mud and water to make ATVing even more fun! We either have drought or floods. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground any longer. Here's hoping that you get some nice dry weather for a spell.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be nice if there was some middle ground? I know the boys prefer the wet stuff, but we older fuddy duddys...
DeleteWow, that is a LOT of water, at least the Farmboys are enjoying it! Did they do their own laundry? ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'll have you know that yellow shirt that ooky is wearing in the last picture was washed THREE times and still didn't come clean. I know...you're shocked, right? :)
DeleteOh, your POOR garden! All your hard work washed away. We've had nearly two weeks of rain but no flooding like that. Okay, you need to find another garden spot or do some serious drainage work. Seems this same spot flooded earlier this spring, too, didn't it? I know the boys are having a blast in their own personal river, but the farm family needs some food for eating and preserving!
ReplyDeleteThe boys enjoy their own personal river but since their new favorite game is Plants Vs. Zombies, they feel we are ill prepared for the Zombie Apocolypse without a garden. So they understand my pain. Ah, such is life. We'll shoot for a better plan next year! :)
DeleteWhat a mess. I can see that is would be heartbreaking for you after all the work of planting a garden. I have learned that it is sometimes easier to go up rather than to go down in a garden. We live on a mountain and tried to dig down to plant a garden and all we came up with is rocks. I swear they reproduce. So we decided to build up instead. We started putting in raised beds. It is so much easier. You can get a lot of garden in a raised bed and it is easier to weed if needed. Then you can put rocks around the beds for drainage. Wishing you the best of luck and can find the solution to your problem.
ReplyDeleteSorry about your garden:( The same thing happened to us last year, minus the happy ending on four wheelers. Way to go looking at the bright side of things!
ReplyDeleteI am sincerely hoping that the weather this year will NOT be indicative of years to come! We're screwed if it is LOL, I'm sorry about your garden but love that you can see humor in it all and they boys are having fun in it. We can't control it, so what can we do?
ReplyDeletegood to see you got what it takes to be a farm girl,me ,I would have been so p.oed.I don't like it when mother nature doesn't behave herself
ReplyDeletegosh, you've had a lot of rain and so have we; there's been a pond where one has never been...at least while we've been here.
ReplyDeleteYou could try growing rice.
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