Raised Bed Too much rain!

[20Gauge]

I realize others are getting it worse with the rain, but I am ever so happy that we have raised beds.

12 inches of rain in the last week or so and yet my plants are doing great. The excess is draining off and all is well with the plants.

Granted, I can't walk in the yard without sinking, but having plants growing and feeding us when weather is bad is fantastic!

So far 259 peppers and 39 cucumbers in just 40 sq ft.

 

[Txkstew]

I walk around here bare footed all the time. If I'm not out going somewhere, I don't have shoes on. I hate it when it rains so much, the ground gets saturated. The muddy water squishes out between my toes, and squirts up and hits me on my belly. When I work in my garden bare foot, the bottoms of my feet get stained and cracked. My kids call it Gator feet. What ever.

 

[naturallysweet]

Haven't had decent rain here since April. Everything not irrigated is dead or dying. Farmers are getting irrigation cut off letters.

 

[Satanta]

Do you have drains in your riased beds? I am going RB next year [[with some luck. I actually want them fairly deep as I'm thinking a gravel underlay to allow excess water to drain since we do get Hurricanes and such here.

been raining off an on all da and for two weeks. Went out and tied up tomato plants in it yesterday.

 

[20Gauge]

Do you have drains in your riased beds? I am going RB next year [[with some luck. I actually want them fairly deep as I'm thinking a gravel underlay to allow excess water to drain since we do get Hurricanes and such here.

been raining off an on all da and for two weeks. Went out and tied up tomato plants in it yesterday.

I put about 15 inches of gravel in the bottom, the soil above it. It works. Also I did not cement the stones, just filled the holes. This gives me a 2nd form of drainage.

 

[Martinhouse]

The only time that I remember having too much rain was summer of 1951 in Minnesota. The grass was yellow instead of green that year, and bad enough for a 7-year-old to remember it because we hardly got to play outside at all that summer.

Here in Arkansas the problem is usually not enough rain, at least not when it's needed the most. Last year was not bad, but this year we've been getting only the occasional "just-in-time" rains that show up in the hot part of summer and seldom give us even a quarter inch at a time.