Well, I went out of town for 8 days. My husband watered my garden faithfully and I am pleased with that. While I was gone there was a very big storm with winds that destroyed grain bins and buildings. It took some shingles of my roof and branches from my trees and ripped doors off my garden shed and knocked over my grill and broke it. So, that is the property damage.
Garden assessment. My tomatoes are a loss, but it is early enough this season to replant. Most of my black-eyed peas are gone and all of my peas are gone. The spinach was almost at its end and has gone to seed, but the remaining spinach is ok. The lettuce looks surprisingly good. My seedlings must have been small enough to avoid damage because my pumpkins, cucumbers, zucchini, and watermelon are all broken through their mounds minus 2 mounds that haven't sprouted. They all look as they should. In the front flower bed, my mums are stripped to stalks and a lot of twigs are in my flower beds. Roses look good and my herb pots survived.
So far I see no green beans or carrots or green peppers or parsnips. I may need to replant green beans and peas, but it is a bit early for the peppers, carrots and parsnips. My spinach replants are sprouting too.
I don't have much planned this coming week except baseball practice for my son and 1 game, so I have plenty of time to do a recovery for the garden. As for today and tomorrow, I have birthday celebrations and church and rest, rest, rest!
