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Garden Master
What is going on in your garden?
Benjamin Bunny showed up in that final sowing of bush beans (after the peas were taken out). I caught him in the act and threw a couple of rocks at him. He won't have any idea where the rocks were coming from our why ... such is life with Benjamin as a neighbor.
Recently, we had some thunderstorms. You are likely to be more familiar with summer storms than I am. The one I experienced was a doozy! Only a few miles away, it amounted to nothing. I know, I was on the road for about 10 minutes out of that 30 minute storm. Yesterday, I returned to where I'd been before I drove the 4 miles from the garden, where I'd just shut off the sprinklers and where it looks like about 4 drops of rain fell.
There was street flooding. People were stopping off the road. On an arched bridge, rain was hitting and blowing sideways so that it was difficult to see more than about 50'. I figured about 3/4" of rain may have fallen.
This morning I've been reading about single cell storms, pulse storms, pulse severe storms. I felt silly having just put about that much water on one garden, until I returned and found no evidence of splashed mud, no dried-up puddles, nuthin'.
I'll see today what .45" of rain did in another garden. Another cell was apparently over that garden. I hope it didn't flatten anything. Probably scared the bejeebers out of Benjamin! If his mom was visiting, I bet she had the foresight to bring her umbrella ...
Steve
Benjamin Bunny showed up in that final sowing of bush beans (after the peas were taken out). I caught him in the act and threw a couple of rocks at him. He won't have any idea where the rocks were coming from our why ... such is life with Benjamin as a neighbor.
Recently, we had some thunderstorms. You are likely to be more familiar with summer storms than I am. The one I experienced was a doozy! Only a few miles away, it amounted to nothing. I know, I was on the road for about 10 minutes out of that 30 minute storm. Yesterday, I returned to where I'd been before I drove the 4 miles from the garden, where I'd just shut off the sprinklers and where it looks like about 4 drops of rain fell.
There was street flooding. People were stopping off the road. On an arched bridge, rain was hitting and blowing sideways so that it was difficult to see more than about 50'. I figured about 3/4" of rain may have fallen.
This morning I've been reading about single cell storms, pulse storms, pulse severe storms. I felt silly having just put about that much water on one garden, until I returned and found no evidence of splashed mud, no dried-up puddles, nuthin'.
I'll see today what .45" of rain did in another garden. Another cell was apparently over that garden. I hope it didn't flatten anything. Probably scared the bejeebers out of Benjamin! If his mom was visiting, I bet she had the foresight to bring her umbrella ...
Steve
