Catastrophe in my garden.

MrBooker 5/15/2019, 8:54 am

We were awakened this morning about 02:15 by loud thunder, high winds and lightening. Then.......... Came the hail.
After daylight, my wife went out to assess the damage. When she returned, she asked me not to go outside yet.

I asked her how bad it was. She said the hail had actually stripped most of the leaves off our big elm trees and my potato bed was flattened and the tomatoes were mostly just stalks now. She says it looks like a weed eater went through the garden.

I had just taken a lot of pics of the garden yesterday and thought Lord, how beautiful it is. Surely, the best garden of my lifetime. I will go out shortly and look around after I get my nerves up and will update with pics a little later.

I believe there must be a blessing in all of this somewhere.

Psalm 46:10 He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

**trolleydriver** 5/15/2019, 9:03 am

Sorry to hear about this MrB. Hope you can salvage something.

OhioGardener 5/15/2019, 9:44 am

It hurts to hear that MrB! We are supposed to get those storms tonight, but I sure hope they weaken on their way over here.

countrynaturals 5/15/2019, 10:06 am

Oh, Mr. B, that's awful. Keep us posted. Fingers crossed that it's not as bad as you fear. Sad

MrBooker 5/15/2019, 10:08 am

OhioGardener wrote:It hurts to hear that MrB! We are supposed to get those storms tonight, but I sure hope they weaken on their way over here.

We'll pray for you. I can't ever remember such a hail storm in my life. Going out now to assess damage.

**Turan** 5/15/2019, 10:39 am

Mr Booker, I feel for you.
Hopefully the strong established root systems your plants have will make their recoveries swift.

MrBooker 5/15/2019, 11:00 am

Turan wrote:Mr Booker, I feel for you.
Hopefully the strong established root systems your plants have will make their recoveries swift.

Thanks Turan. It's as bad as I had feared. Going to post some pics now.

MrBooker 5/15/2019, 11:20 am

Yesterdays Potatoes.

After the storm potatoes.

before.

After

Sweet potatoes before

After

Pretty much devastated.... I have faith the Lord will raise them up again.

**sanderson** 5/15/2019, 3:09 pm

Oh, no!!

Heartbreaking BIG hug

ralitaco 5/15/2019, 10:29 pm

Mr Booker,
Mother Nature can be a real B...then she can be a real sweetheart. (reminds me of those Sour Patch Kids commercials)

On the bright side (and it's a stretch), the stalks and stems still look to be in good shape...at least not broken.
So MN just has to regrow the leaves and then the veggies.
Hopefully that means this storm will just set you back a few weeks in the "Lazarus" garden.

MrBooker 5/16/2019, 6:26 am

sanderson wrote:Oh, no!! Heartbreaking

And I was off to such a good start too. I'll go to our local Rural King and Wal-Mart today and see what plants they have left. The stores are about 10 miles away so maybe they didnt get the hail that we did.

MrBooker 5/16/2019, 6:35 am

ralitaco wrote:Mr Booker,
Mother Nature can be a real B...then she can be a real sweetheart. (reminds me of those Sour Patch Kids commercials)

On the bright side (and it's a stretch), the stalks and stems still look to be in good shape...at least not broken.
So MN just has to regrow the leaves and then the veggies.
Hopefully that means this storm will just set you back a few weeks in the "Lazarus" garden.

I think I'm going to replace some of the wurst ones today if I can. "Lazarus" garden Very Happy

MrBooker 5/16/2019, 12:36 pm

Went to our local Rural King store today and bought two "Pink girl" tomatoes, an Orange pepper and a yellow Pepper and six more sweet potatoes to replace some of my plants. The sweet potatoes really took a beating.

**sanderson** 5/18/2019, 4:00 am

Keep us updated.

MrBooker 5/18/2019, 6:38 am

sanderson wrote:Keep us updated.

I will keep you updated with some pics. I think the weather is on our side so far. It's been in the 70's and 80's and a fair amount of rain. Maybe the healing process will begin.

ispinwool 5/18/2019, 7:30 am

So very very sorry to see the damage, MrBooker!!! Sad

MrBooker 5/18/2019, 7:33 am

ispinwool wrote:So very very sorry to see the damage, MrBooker!!!

Thank you. Hopefully some of it will recover.

**Scorpio Rising** 5/18/2019, 5:16 pm

MrBooker wrote:Went to our local Rural King store today and bought two "Pink girl" tomatoes, an Orange pepper and a yellow Pepper and six more sweet potatoes to replace some of my plants. The sweet potatoes really took a beating.

So sorry...looks like they might make it, though, not on your original timetable...that must’ve been quite the storm. pale

MrBooker 5/19/2019, 6:20 am

Scorpio Rising wrote:
MrBooker wrote:Went to our local Rural King store today and bought two "Pink girl" tomatoes, an Orange pepper and a yellow Pepper and six more sweet potatoes to replace some of my plants. The sweet potatoes really took a beating.
So sorry...looks like they might make it, though, not on your original timetable...that must’ve been quite the storm.

Yes, looks like some plants might make it but it's not looking good. I have never seen hail that big in this area in my life.

**Scorpio Rising** 5/19/2019, 1:26 pm

The weather is truly crazy.... thinking

MrBooker 6/3/2019, 10:20 am

The Lord has restored our garden...... cheers

About 3 weeks ago we thought our garden was destroyed by the hail storm. Today, it looks like everything is pretty much restored.

LEAF LETTUCE AND GREEN BEANS.

CABBAGE AND SQUASH

RED TATERS

BELL PEPPERS: THESE PLANTS ARE ONLY ABOUT A FOOT TALL AND PRODUCING PEPPERS.

4 POTS OF SWEET POTATOES

**Turan** 6/3/2019, 12:44 pm

Wonderful!

It is amazing how well a plant can recover with an established root system and good care.

countrynaturals 6/3/2019, 9:39 pm

Beautiful, TD. I love you

**AtlantaMarie** 6/4/2019, 8:35 am

Awesome! SO happy for you!!! Very Happy

**sanderson** 6/4/2019, 5:26 pm

Mr. B, Wonderful!!

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