To say this spring has been rainy is an understatement. It has been wet! and it continues to rain here in northern Missouri. Talking to a full time resident at the Lake, last Saturday the Lake received 7+ inches and additional rain throughout the week including .8" on Friday and 1-3/4" on Saturday. Last weekend, Johanna and her friends were there when the 7" came. They got up Saturday morning to a lake in the front yard. The water came up through the bridge and over the driveway and our pretty little garden (in previous entry) washed away. The "kids" did some damage control and saved the bridge rails from washing away and picked up what plants they could find.
We ran down Saturday evening, a week later, and got up to a rip roaring thunder storm this morning!
The ground is soggy, the ditch runs hard and water streams down natural waterways through the yard, into the ditch and through the culvert. The ground is so wet we didn't mow as it just would have tracked up the grass and made more of a mess. Last evening, we picked up plants from around the yard. This illustrates how wet it has been there -- these plants have been out of the ground for a week and are still alive! We found 2 tomato plants, a bush cucumber and 3 marigolds.
I scrooped up clumps of black dirt washed out of the garden box and strewn around the yard. We raked up what dirt was left in the box and replanted. We even had some of the green onions left in the box and shored them up a little. Now we hope for sunshine and rains a little further apart . . . and may our garden grow.
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