Hail

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

Peppers, tomatoes, strawberries, sunflowers, .... All got hit with hail last weekend. The peppers probably look the worst. I wish the hail had killed a few rabbits and squirrels, because they keep eating my sunflowers (ARGH!!!!!!!)

This is just on the back porch, but the damage was everywhere, obviously. I was out of town last week so here's the pic my wife sent me after the storm rolled through fast and hard

 

[catjac1975]

Wow I have never seen such a sight.

 

[so lucky]

Hopefully most of your plants will recover in time. Don't give up yet.

 

[digitS']

Are you in the path of that storm in the Rockies moving on thru the Dakotas, Sprig'???

Rabbits eat sunflowers? Well, that explains it! Setting them out as 3 week old plants seems to offer little interest to whatever critters eat ours.

I feel bad about complaining on the Mountain Cottontails that can cause so much damage in my garden ... now, that @Gardening with Rabbits has told us a rabbit that loved her and told of her great efforts at nursing it when the rabbit became ill . The ones in her avatar look uncomfortably like Mountain Cottontails.

Weather! Critters!.

Steve

 

[lesa]

For crying out loud!!! Hoping your plants will survive.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Weather! Critters!.

Steve

Well, before they were in the hutch, that was my reaction I actually threw dirt clods at them before they were mine. It is going to be interesting this summer. I have 2 friends with gardens and both have rabbits moving into their yards. One is neighbor rabbits and the other I am not sure if tame or cottontail, but there are more than 1, so there will be 5 and then 20 and then too late.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Peppers, tomatoes, strawberries, sunflowers, .... All got hit with hail last weekend. The peppers probably look the worst. I wish the hail had killed a few rabbits and squirrels, because they keep eating my sunflowers (ARGH!!!!!!!)

This is just on the back porch, but the damage was everywhere, obviously. I was out of town last week so here's the pic my wife sent me after the storm rolled through fast and hard

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That is crazy! Sorry you are going through such a thing.

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

Are you in the path of that storm in the Rockies moving on thru the Dakotas, Sprig'???

Rabbits eat sunflowers? Well, that explains it! Setting them out as 3 week old plants seems to offer little interest to whatever critters eat ours.

I feel bad about complaining on the Mountain Cottontails that can cause so much damage in my garden ... now, that @Gardening with Rabbits has told us a rabbit that loved her and told of her great efforts at nursing it when the rabbit became ill . The ones in her avatar look uncomfortably like Mountain Cottontails.

Weather! Critters!.

Steve

built a fence of chickenwire around all the sunflowers now.

 

[valley ranch]

It's snowing here in the Sierra Nevada mountains right now.

 

[TwoCrows]

Oh that is awful!! I have had this happen to my veggie garden as well. We get our worst hail in June and July, of course when plants are fruiting out. 2 inches of large hail will destroy it all.

I hope you have time to replant!