Some Before and After Plant Pics
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2024 4:42 pm
Some before and after pics...
Helene really twisted up netting over beds and left wind damage on a lot of leaves. This bed has the yellow squash on the right and some bush beans on the left. Pecan debris in the nearest walkway:
Got them and other beds squared away, put back together and damaged foliage cut off. Most seem to be recuperating nicely.I might get some Blue Ribbon bean seed after all.
Before the storm the Morden's cukes were looking really good!
The poor things got really shredded. I didn't thing they would recover but a few of the vines show promise. They're loaded with flowers but many of those were pre-storm so I don't know if they're viable now or not. We'll see. Pickles is in the background measuring how deep the water is in that rootball hole. 2' of water in there and room for more. I gotta toss a few mosquito dunks in there as the skeeters are really breeding.
The twelve F2 Packman broccoli plants (grown to see what they look like) were doing so well pre-storm. Can't find that pic. But they sure took a beating and I don't know if they'll make it or not.
I've cut all the broken foliage offand keeping fingers crossed.
The cow peas will have to fend for themselves. They had been in standing water for several days and are starting to funk up just as they were starting to make good. I tried to pick some the other day and 3' into the patch I stepped on a soft spot (row, not walkway) and my right foot sunk in to above the ankle! Then I lost my balance trying to pull it out and ended up sitting in the muck. Thank goodness Pickles was in the garden and helped me get out. Had to pull my foot out of the mud, rescue the shoe and then sock-foot it out of the bed with a wet butt too. Where I sunk in...
At least the Contender beans made it. Both rows were rather swirled around but I put stakes and strings on the sides of each row to help support them and gently got them upright. The row closest to the camera is what I'm picking now and the row on the other side of the bed is just starting to flower.
At least the Leslie Ann Camellia sasanqua is starting to bloom, right on time. So take that, Helene!
Helene really twisted up netting over beds and left wind damage on a lot of leaves. This bed has the yellow squash on the right and some bush beans on the left. Pecan debris in the nearest walkway:
Got them and other beds squared away, put back together and damaged foliage cut off. Most seem to be recuperating nicely.I might get some Blue Ribbon bean seed after all.
Before the storm the Morden's cukes were looking really good!
The poor things got really shredded. I didn't thing they would recover but a few of the vines show promise. They're loaded with flowers but many of those were pre-storm so I don't know if they're viable now or not. We'll see. Pickles is in the background measuring how deep the water is in that rootball hole. 2' of water in there and room for more. I gotta toss a few mosquito dunks in there as the skeeters are really breeding.
The twelve F2 Packman broccoli plants (grown to see what they look like) were doing so well pre-storm. Can't find that pic. But they sure took a beating and I don't know if they'll make it or not.
I've cut all the broken foliage offand keeping fingers crossed.
The cow peas will have to fend for themselves. They had been in standing water for several days and are starting to funk up just as they were starting to make good. I tried to pick some the other day and 3' into the patch I stepped on a soft spot (row, not walkway) and my right foot sunk in to above the ankle! Then I lost my balance trying to pull it out and ended up sitting in the muck. Thank goodness Pickles was in the garden and helped me get out. Had to pull my foot out of the mud, rescue the shoe and then sock-foot it out of the bed with a wet butt too. Where I sunk in...
At least the Contender beans made it. Both rows were rather swirled around but I put stakes and strings on the sides of each row to help support them and gently got them upright. The row closest to the camera is what I'm picking now and the row on the other side of the bed is just starting to flower.
At least the Leslie Ann Camellia sasanqua is starting to bloom, right on time. So take that, Helene!