Storm takes out my garden!
Last night’s big windstorm brought a huge tree down in our yard, right on top of the garden!
It brought down the trellis and fence, and now covers about half the garden. No idea yet if anything survived.
The good news is that my husband emailed our tree service, Extreme Tree Company, late last night and they were already here this morning by 7:45 to take care of removing the tree. They are hard at work right now.
If you’re interested in seeing more, I posted photos of the storm damage on Flickr. If you have photos of storm damage, you can email them to me and I can post them to this account, as well.
I’ll post again with an update to what survived. What’s lying under the tree right now are all of my lovely heirloom tomato plants, all the peppers, and most of the basil. Plus squash and the muskmelons that were FINALLY growing. I will probably be in mourning tonight.
Oh well. At least there’s a good Farmer’s Market nearby.
June 30, 2012 - 8:57 AM
Karen, oh no – it looks terrible! My heart goes out to you. Did anything survive? Yes, there is a good farmer’s market nearby. Let’s hope that those farmers did not have as much damage as you.
I mourn with you. The basil would be possible to replace at this point…cuttings off mature plants will root in water within a few days. In trying to find some positive in the storm, will the removal of this tree give future gardens more hours of daylight? Hang in there!
Sorry for the severe damage to your property. That stinks.
Separately, I have a twelve-year-old small dogwood tree that is in decent health, I suppose, but it has never thrived. There are a couple of small dead branches on it. Is it OK to cut them off this time of year? If not, when is a better time?
Karen, I hope that you are one of the lucky ones over in B’burg and that you have power. I have heard of several folks over that way who are still without power and they are looking at not getting it back till late this week.
About our Cassidy’s Folly tomato – I noticed that we have blossom end rot on 3-4 tomatoes on each of our plants. I have been picking them off and throwing them away. All of the other tomatoes are doing fine. We are thinking this plant may be more susceptible to blossom end rot. We will see how they do the rest of the summer.
Doppler Carol: Yes, we are one of the very lucky folks that never lost power. It only flickered off and on a couple of times. We know lots of people still suffering through. All in all, we were very lucky to only have damage to our garden. Those were scary storms!
replant! there are enough days left. think about it. you have about 85 days until the end of september. no frost worries till way after then. also- many gardens can grow 2 crops of some things. cold weather is NOT around the corner . triumph over the storm!
giles: My thoughts exactly! I hit the end of season sales this weekend and picked up some more tomato and pepper plants. On to garden #2! There are some things I won’t be able to replace but a summer without homegrown tomatoes is unthinkable!
We lost a tomato plant that broke near the ground in the windstorm, but otherwise our garden survived. The pepper plants, zucchini, herbs, and other tomato plants made it through. Last year a hail storm did some serious leaf damage, mainly to our squash and watermelons. I’m just glad I hadn’t already built my greenhouse, I very well might have lost it to the wind…