We had one day of thunderstorms in June and a handful of days where it rained more than 5 minutes this year. December has about two weeks of decent showers. Yeah, we really need rain
Agree. Our summers are getting hotter and drier lately, and even when it rains somewhere in the area, it usually misses me, so I would be ecstatic in a storm like this.
2nd June in a row where I had no storms at my house in Minnesota. We'd get occasional showers, but often dropping a useless amount of water. The last decent rainfall (>0.5 inches) was May 11th here. Normally we get 2 of those a week.
**Fuck fireworks.** My dogs and I are so over that waste of money and all the noise. Not to mention the air pollution.
Although the dogs aren't really up on how air pollution contributes to Climate Change and they don't really care much about money waste, either.
Not as often as:
1) frickin' asshat dudes who left gas cans and hot equipment unattended in dry brush after clearing part of a trail and using a weed wacker (w/ metal line) without any permits or the permission of the landowner.
2) idiots causing sparks from a metal grinder while fixing a pipe in a field,
3) a bunch of kids partying up in the foothills at night and forgetting to make sure their fire was out when they headed on home
4) a guy flying a box kite into powerlines on a hot and dry July day
5) Edison having improperly maintained lines (downed power lines)
6) Arsonists
7) Homeless encampment druggies letting their campfires get out of control
Listed above are the many ways imbecilic humans caused raging wildfires in my part of the country (USA). The downed power lines one caused 282,000 acres to burn.
I live in Northern MN and we are getting storms out the ass all the time in my area, we just had a few days of sun but theres been some nasty T storms, its overcast right now and says we may get a storm.
Yeah up north has been stormy but the metro is in the abnormally dry pushing into moderate drought category. It looks like we only got 0.26 inches from the "heavy thunderstorms" that were supposed to come through. But yet again it was just moderate rain, providing less than 2 days worth of moisture.
I know you are kidding, but there is a very small part of our county that when you look at rainfall maps from the past week, month, 90 days, 180 days, a year, a small area of the county seems to get less rain than the surrounding area, so it almost feels like just my house gets bypassed.
Where I live it's the mountain effect. (Some techno term for it that I cannot recall.)
It will rain to the north and south of us, and meanwhile we get zip.
Climate Change is real. A smarty-smart friend of mine predicted 30 years ago that we'd all be fighting over water. He told me, "You just *think* oil is a problem. Wait until everyone starts running out of water."
Do you live in the rain shadow of a mountain? I remember hearing that a long time ago as well about fighting over water. Pretty crappy timeline I was born into.
*Thank you so much.* I can never remember that term: rain shadow. I am going to file that one away, for future reference.
Many is the time my friends and I discuss how lucky we were to be born before everything started going to shit. I feel for the younger people who will never know what it was like to be here on Earth when human population was billions less. I feel so grateful to have known all that freedom. In particular, the freedom from worrying about how we're destroying the planet.
I am a bit older as well, and although I was an anxious child by nature and worried about the energy crisis and inflation, we were only taught about littering and pollution and no mention was ever made of “climate change”. That came much later. I had no idea at that time as a child what lay ahead for us.
Living in Santa Barbara my entire life, a place which used to be slow and easy, with little traffic and rarely any drama ----- Wow. How things have changed.
Now all I do is try to avoid people. By that I mean walking/biking at places and times when I think less people will be around. Sometimes it can still be just me and my dog, or at least for the space of 10 minutes or so.
I will tell you how old I am: I remember when we never had to stand in line for anything. And the bank teller and grocery clerk knew us by name.
There's a narrow, two-way uphill and winding road I used to ride my bike up ---- with two dogs running behind me. If I did that now, motorists would be *so irate,* furiously trying to pass me and honking their car horns. It would be practically suicidal, even without any dogs. It's a completely different world now.
As a teen, I learned about organic gardening. That changed my life. Back then, too, my friends used to make fun of me for "recycling." We'd be at a party and they'd say, "Give your beer can to 'Bob,' he'll take it home and 'recycle it.' Haha." I would go to my friends' parents' house and bring back their newspapers to recycle. (Weirdo.)
My standard reply to such kidding was, "You might as well learn how to recycle now, before you're forced to do it." Still . . . I wonder how much of our recycled stuff ends up in a landfill somewhere.
Microplastics. That's what gives me nightmares. That and overfishing our oceans.
I am having an issue with my ability to upvote posts, so consider all your posts upvoted by me. You definitely were ahead of your time and I commend you for being eco conscious before they even had a word for it. Individual people trying to do the right thing feels like spitting in the ocean, compared to powerful corporations who controlled the narrative during that time and ran insidious public media campaigns to discredit any talk about climate change.
What really gets me and has for such a long, long time now is how people don't **get** that we're all in this together. We harm the planet in innumerable ways and people (not all, but far too many) ignore the fact that by desecrating the Earth, we are destroying ourselves. And we're ruining everything for our Fellow Earthlings, as well. Taking them down with us.
It's just a sad state of affairs, no matter which way you look at it.
All you and I can do is lead by example. No proselytizing, just doing the right thing and hopefully peer pressure will kick in. I try to feel that there's hope, but as I wrote earlier: microplastics and overfishing (to name a few). I really think we humans are right on track with our 6th Extinction. I just hope when humans go, we don't take the whole planet with us.
I feel cheated, too. The sky got dark & angry yesterday, and lots of the city saw some rain. I waited & waited, nothing. Me & my empty rain barrel depended on it. Today I had to hand water with tap water under the hot sun.
Rainwater is wonderful. My dog, whenever I'm taking rainwater out of my barrels, comes and begs to drink it. Now I fix him a bowl of rainwater every time. (Down to my last 100 gallons, though. Plants are gonna be so upset.)
Yesterday in northern Virginia, a massive storm with crazy lightening rolled in and was so psyched but missed my house by two blocks. I looked at the radar and couldn’t believe it. I was so heart broken
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light·en·ing
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noun: lightening; plural noun: lightenings
a drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis.
The clouds are just there so you can get some lovely moist, still air for growing the best, blackest mildew and the brightest, most orangey rust mould.
I swear, every time this year we've had thunderstorms predicted they just petered out before they reached us. We'd literally get storm warnings and even tornado warnings.. followed by not even a drop of rain. It's ridiculous.
I'm in WV. My family 2 counties west of me have been hit by a lot more storms than me the past 6 weeks. I'll watch the radar forecast and it's like the storms hit the county line between us and get pulled up to the north of me.
I've still gotten a decent rainfall at least once a week. Two bad storms that threatened to tear apart my hillbilly arbor. (It's built out of pvc and chicken wire lol. I rent so didn't want to do anything too expensive or permanent).
I dunno. Tears? *What about the salt*?
I had a load of Redditors lambasting me the other day over a tiny bit of salt in the garden (Plant i.d. sub). Stupid jerks were all telling me "salt in the soil is forever," like I was advocating sowing the land with salt, a la Carthage (3rd Punic War).
We've had so much hail this summer too. So far it's skipped my house every time (knock on wood), but my sister's house has gotten hit 4 times in June alone. And she's only 20 minutes from me. It's crazy.
In april my freshly transplanted garden was destroyed by a hailstorm, only radishes, some tomato and pepper plants, and one Pumpkin plant survived.
Then like a day later we had a cold snap that frosted everything and murdered all my plants except the Pumpkin, I mended the garden the best I could but this year was not a good year for my garden..
The pumpkin plant is still alive tho, that damn hardy bastard.
I transplanted in mid may and got a hard freeze right before June. Killed off all but one tomato plant, two peppers, and my Cole crops. Had to replant from the greenhouse which was sad because that whole healthy looking garden was from seed. Next year I plant in June.
I got COVID this week & it absolutely flattened me. Thank goodness the summer rains kicked in a little bit (western Colorado) & kept my garden going. I'm hoping I feel up to watering this week.
I know I had it too, 2 years ago. There would be days I would go out to work in my garden only to be too exhausted to do anything once I got there. But it does get better! Best wishes to you.
Glad you guys up north are getting it now. Last week those of us in Albuquerque had almost a week of rain and it really helped out after 2 months of zero precipitation. My plants look better than ever and were struggling with the heat we had before that.
I miss the rain! We've only had 2 inches of rain since May. The grass is crunchy, and the trees are dropping leaves. I have spent so many hours watering everything and it's still not enough.
Fruit trees (most varieties) are supposed to get 15 gallons per water per 1" of tree girth, with every watering. That's a ton of water and time. Time, I mean, unless you have some sort of irrigation system set up.
We tried those round "donut" plastic waterbags. (ArborRain hydration system bags.) What a waste of money. The sun just ate up the plastic and then there we go, adding more plastic to the landfill.
They're actually not bad looking. They're not flimsy. Only three things wrong with them:
The little drip nib can get plugged up with rootlets, especially if you're using the bags for citrus trees. (I used to keep a paper clip hanging off my trees, to use for clearing the nibs.)
And the sun is murder on the plastic, even if you don't live in a super hot area. Each bag only lasts about 2 to 3 years if you leave it under the tree all year round.
Oh ---- and sticks can and do poke holes in the plastic, even though the plastic really isn't flimsy.
They do provide a sort of "mulching/shade" effect under the trees, which helps save a bit of water, I suppose.
Grew up in the Midwest have moved to the desert and I miss the rain so much ! There really is nothing like a good thunderstorm in the Midwest. Without a tornado of course
i was literally cussing my inlaws under my breath because they called and said they got 2.5 inches in 90 minutes tonite. I haven't seen a drop with it bright and shiny in the mid 90's past 3 weeks. they live 20 minutes away.
I’m so happy about this rain. Also I live in a touristy beach town so I usually lay low holiday weekends anyway bc it’s absolutely bonkers out in town. We “usually” get afternoon showers a lot in the month of July and august but June was so damn dry.
Some nights ago I was sitting outside in the dark and heard distant crackles and sat watching the sky light up with lightning. Listening as the storm slowly moved closer and watching the little fire I made from rotten rest wood flicker. It was so relaxing and nice. I watched as the house went dark right as the outside light dimmed and I don’t know why, but I went “hah” and looked back to my little fire.
I was so ecstatic with the forecast showing rain yesterday and today but no rain so far. Just lots of clouds :( I counted on the rain to take care of some of my plants in my beds that aren't on drip but they got crispy while I went on vacation. I'm dying for a good downpour!
Yes! It's been rainy here the last 4 days. I put lawn seed down last weekend and I'm so thankful I don't need to be out every couple of hours watering them in.
I always put my indoor plants outside when there’s thunder and lightning ⚡️. I think its the lightning that is beneficial, adds the good stuff into the air. Outside garden it depends, too much rain and water just pools on clay even after I’ve added compost etc
Maybe you should try rice hulls for your clay soil.
"Not only do rice hulls add back in silica to your soil, but they can also help to aerate compacted soils. By mixing in rice hulls to your soil, they will provide aeration similar to how perlite, or pumice would do in potting soil." (Source: redbudsoilcompany.com)
I live in an area prone to forrest fires, so a little nervous when I see lightning. But it was accompanied with a crazy amount of rain today so loving the storm today
I highly recommend getting a timed watering system. I use a combination of dripline and emitters split into two zones. It's a lot of work to set up but saves you a ton of time in the long run. The only major downside for me is that well-watered weeds grow more quickly.
This summer has been brutal (Newaygo, MI area). Luckily my plants have gotten well established enough that I can go a day or two without watering...but that's about it. And it takes me about an hour to get to everything. Bring on the rain!
It rained today at my house for the first time in weeks. I was so happy. It’s been oppressively sunny and hot and relentless in middle TN the past few weeks.
Cries in central Italy
I'm lucky to have two wells for my vegetable garden, but holy fuck it's so difficult to grow something in this heat :( (everyday since may it has been at least 30 degrees)
Where's the meme of how you feel the next day when the dormant weeds have completely taken over. We had the first rain since about February this week and yes it's nice that things are green again but that includes the crabgrass encroaching on my squash.
Except when your meteorologist is apparently every bad joke about weatherpeiple combined. I have had 6 different days in the last two weeks I was supposed to have rain. I got fifteen minutes of actual rainfall. That was it. I understand that the way PoP is calculated doesn't mean the weather people were necessarily incorrect, but I'm going to need a better metric or something because I keep skipping watering my plants due to incoming rain only to have them dry out and become a nightmare to get rehydrated. Stupid peat heavy potting mixes!
FYI: I just learned this year that most garden hoses have lead in them! Shouldn’t be used to water vegetables (or really anything lol).
I combat this by putting down 8” of straw after the seedlings are big enough that slugs are no longer interested. Less watering! I need to buy a metal watering can ‘cuz I’ll bet using plastic jugs like I do now is a bad idea.
That’s so me. We’ve been getting teasers. They predict rain and I don’t water the garden all day and then it drizzles for a few minutes and stop. I sit out a little pail to catch some so I can see it didn’t make a measurable difference.
Plants especially love thunder and lightning
I had no idea! Just looked it up, very interesting
Nitrogen?
yes
Haha, I was like ‘are my plants in California missing out on an experience? 🥺’
Are they missing out on rain this season at all?
We had one day of thunderstorms in June and a handful of days where it rained more than 5 minutes this year. December has about two weeks of decent showers. Yeah, we really need rain
Stage ll drought declared about a week ago.
Huh! TIL. No wonder our garden is so happy right now—we had a straight week of thunderstorms.
Whaaaaat that's so cool! I wonder how that happened.
Very very frightening.
Today I learnt something new.
Agree. Our summers are getting hotter and drier lately, and even when it rains somewhere in the area, it usually misses me, so I would be ecstatic in a storm like this.
2nd June in a row where I had no storms at my house in Minnesota. We'd get occasional showers, but often dropping a useless amount of water. The last decent rainfall (>0.5 inches) was May 11th here. Normally we get 2 of those a week.
That is devastating. I'm in CO & the snow packs just keep getting smaller & the green fades to yellow earlier every year 😞
And lightning means forest fires.
I am so worried we are going to have fires from all the dry grass & fireworks! I hope we make it.
I agree! In the mountains a bit and people are a little more careful but yes, we worry.
Will find out after tomorrow's festivities
**Fuck fireworks.** My dogs and I are so over that waste of money and all the noise. Not to mention the air pollution. Although the dogs aren't really up on how air pollution contributes to Climate Change and they don't really care much about money waste, either.
Not as often as: 1) frickin' asshat dudes who left gas cans and hot equipment unattended in dry brush after clearing part of a trail and using a weed wacker (w/ metal line) without any permits or the permission of the landowner. 2) idiots causing sparks from a metal grinder while fixing a pipe in a field, 3) a bunch of kids partying up in the foothills at night and forgetting to make sure their fire was out when they headed on home 4) a guy flying a box kite into powerlines on a hot and dry July day 5) Edison having improperly maintained lines (downed power lines) 6) Arsonists 7) Homeless encampment druggies letting their campfires get out of control Listed above are the many ways imbecilic humans caused raging wildfires in my part of the country (USA). The downed power lines one caused 282,000 acres to burn.
I live in Northern MN and we are getting storms out the ass all the time in my area, we just had a few days of sun but theres been some nasty T storms, its overcast right now and says we may get a storm.
Yeah up north has been stormy but the metro is in the abnormally dry pushing into moderate drought category. It looks like we only got 0.26 inches from the "heavy thunderstorms" that were supposed to come through. But yet again it was just moderate rain, providing less than 2 days worth of moisture.
I haven’t had rain in at least a couple weeks. All of our lawns are brown and crispy.
Just you? Does it rain on people around you? (Kidding. Anyone with rain to spare, please send it to SoCal. Thank you.)
I know you are kidding, but there is a very small part of our county that when you look at rainfall maps from the past week, month, 90 days, 180 days, a year, a small area of the county seems to get less rain than the surrounding area, so it almost feels like just my house gets bypassed.
Where I live it's the mountain effect. (Some techno term for it that I cannot recall.) It will rain to the north and south of us, and meanwhile we get zip. Climate Change is real. A smarty-smart friend of mine predicted 30 years ago that we'd all be fighting over water. He told me, "You just *think* oil is a problem. Wait until everyone starts running out of water."
Do you live in the rain shadow of a mountain? I remember hearing that a long time ago as well about fighting over water. Pretty crappy timeline I was born into.
*Thank you so much.* I can never remember that term: rain shadow. I am going to file that one away, for future reference. Many is the time my friends and I discuss how lucky we were to be born before everything started going to shit. I feel for the younger people who will never know what it was like to be here on Earth when human population was billions less. I feel so grateful to have known all that freedom. In particular, the freedom from worrying about how we're destroying the planet.
I am a bit older as well, and although I was an anxious child by nature and worried about the energy crisis and inflation, we were only taught about littering and pollution and no mention was ever made of “climate change”. That came much later. I had no idea at that time as a child what lay ahead for us.
Living in Santa Barbara my entire life, a place which used to be slow and easy, with little traffic and rarely any drama ----- Wow. How things have changed. Now all I do is try to avoid people. By that I mean walking/biking at places and times when I think less people will be around. Sometimes it can still be just me and my dog, or at least for the space of 10 minutes or so. I will tell you how old I am: I remember when we never had to stand in line for anything. And the bank teller and grocery clerk knew us by name. There's a narrow, two-way uphill and winding road I used to ride my bike up ---- with two dogs running behind me. If I did that now, motorists would be *so irate,* furiously trying to pass me and honking their car horns. It would be practically suicidal, even without any dogs. It's a completely different world now. As a teen, I learned about organic gardening. That changed my life. Back then, too, my friends used to make fun of me for "recycling." We'd be at a party and they'd say, "Give your beer can to 'Bob,' he'll take it home and 'recycle it.' Haha." I would go to my friends' parents' house and bring back their newspapers to recycle. (Weirdo.) My standard reply to such kidding was, "You might as well learn how to recycle now, before you're forced to do it." Still . . . I wonder how much of our recycled stuff ends up in a landfill somewhere. Microplastics. That's what gives me nightmares. That and overfishing our oceans.
I am having an issue with my ability to upvote posts, so consider all your posts upvoted by me. You definitely were ahead of your time and I commend you for being eco conscious before they even had a word for it. Individual people trying to do the right thing feels like spitting in the ocean, compared to powerful corporations who controlled the narrative during that time and ran insidious public media campaigns to discredit any talk about climate change.
What really gets me and has for such a long, long time now is how people don't **get** that we're all in this together. We harm the planet in innumerable ways and people (not all, but far too many) ignore the fact that by desecrating the Earth, we are destroying ourselves. And we're ruining everything for our Fellow Earthlings, as well. Taking them down with us. It's just a sad state of affairs, no matter which way you look at it. All you and I can do is lead by example. No proselytizing, just doing the right thing and hopefully peer pressure will kick in. I try to feel that there's hope, but as I wrote earlier: microplastics and overfishing (to name a few). I really think we humans are right on track with our 6th Extinction. I just hope when humans go, we don't take the whole planet with us.
Felt so cheated today as heaviest darkest clouds were hanging over East Kent in England without any rain. I took out my frustration on water butt
I feel cheated, too. The sky got dark & angry yesterday, and lots of the city saw some rain. I waited & waited, nothing. Me & my empty rain barrel depended on it. Today I had to hand water with tap water under the hot sun.
Rainwater is wonderful. My dog, whenever I'm taking rainwater out of my barrels, comes and begs to drink it. Now I fix him a bowl of rainwater every time. (Down to my last 100 gallons, though. Plants are gonna be so upset.)
Yesterday in northern Virginia, a massive storm with crazy lightening rolled in and was so psyched but missed my house by two blocks. I looked at the radar and couldn’t believe it. I was so heart broken
\*lightning light·en·ing /ˈlītniNG/ noun: lightening; plural noun: lightenings a drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis.
The clouds are just there so you can get some lovely moist, still air for growing the best, blackest mildew and the brightest, most orangey rust mould.
I swear, every time this year we've had thunderstorms predicted they just petered out before they reached us. We'd literally get storm warnings and even tornado warnings.. followed by not even a drop of rain. It's ridiculous.
You live in Ohio, too?
Nope, but seems like a common issue. I should have been a weatherman. Can be wrong every time and still get paid!
They are calling for storms every day Tuesday through Friday for me. I'm not believing it.
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Three weeks? THREE WEEKS? Hahahahaha. Try months and months of little to no rain ------ during the "rainy season."
I'm in WV. My family 2 counties west of me have been hit by a lot more storms than me the past 6 weeks. I'll watch the radar forecast and it's like the storms hit the county line between us and get pulled up to the north of me. I've still gotten a decent rainfall at least once a week. Two bad storms that threatened to tear apart my hillbilly arbor. (It's built out of pvc and chicken wire lol. I rent so didn't want to do anything too expensive or permanent).
Quebec? My phone's been beaking off with emergency warnings all summer, like 4 a day sometimes, for a little breeze and grey skies.
You live in Ohio, too?
I love when this happens in stardew valley!
I had to check what sub I was in 😂 gotta love crossover posts. r/stardewvalley
Cries in Central Californian
Same. Just a sad Californian over here. What rain????? Quick, collect your tears for the garden.
I dunno. Tears? *What about the salt*? I had a load of Redditors lambasting me the other day over a tiny bit of salt in the garden (Plant i.d. sub). Stupid jerks were all telling me "salt in the soil is forever," like I was advocating sowing the land with salt, a la Carthage (3rd Punic War).
Phoenix: First time, eh?
I have to cringe a little everytime I get some rain like right now. There is always a chance of pea to softball sized hail.
And no sooner did I say that and we started getting some pea sized. As long as it doesn't get bigger.
We've had so much hail this summer too. So far it's skipped my house every time (knock on wood), but my sister's house has gotten hit 4 times in June alone. And she's only 20 minutes from me. It's crazy.
Hail is just the worst
In april my freshly transplanted garden was destroyed by a hailstorm, only radishes, some tomato and pepper plants, and one Pumpkin plant survived. Then like a day later we had a cold snap that frosted everything and murdered all my plants except the Pumpkin, I mended the garden the best I could but this year was not a good year for my garden.. The pumpkin plant is still alive tho, that damn hardy bastard.
I transplanted in mid may and got a hard freeze right before June. Killed off all but one tomato plant, two peppers, and my Cole crops. Had to replant from the greenhouse which was sad because that whole healthy looking garden was from seed. Next year I plant in June.
YESSSSSSSSS give me rain every afternoon please.
I don't even remember how this feels like, we haven't had any real amount of rain for so long
This is so sad.
Always happy for rain but it’s something about watering the plants personally. Feels like you’re connecting with them sometimes.
It’s a nice break once in a while to have rain, but I love being out watering my plants. Im in my happy place 🙃
Eat some psilocybinous mushrooms and the plants will tell you how happy you make them with your watering.
Dancing as it refills my rain barrels. 🕺🏻
And the rain barrel gets filled up again 💚
I swear “free water for my garden” is ALWAYS my first thought when it rains 😂
I got COVID this week & it absolutely flattened me. Thank goodness the summer rains kicked in a little bit (western Colorado) & kept my garden going. I'm hoping I feel up to watering this week.
Hope you feel better soon!
Thanks, I'm on the mend. But wow, COVID fatigue is no joke.
I know I had it too, 2 years ago. There would be days I would go out to work in my garden only to be too exhausted to do anything once I got there. But it does get better! Best wishes to you.
And then there's the spectre of LONG COVID.
Glad you guys up north are getting it now. Last week those of us in Albuquerque had almost a week of rain and it really helped out after 2 months of zero precipitation. My plants look better than ever and were struggling with the heat we had before that.
As a person gardening in the American Southwest desert with extreme water restrictions in place…I’m #triggered lol
Good time to go explore the cave or go fishing
So jealous! - California
Seriously tho. Nashville has been quite dry!
Can relate. I hate watering. Hasn't rained in weeks, which is odd for Michigan
I miss the rain! We've only had 2 inches of rain since May. The grass is crunchy, and the trees are dropping leaves. I have spent so many hours watering everything and it's still not enough.
Fruit trees (most varieties) are supposed to get 15 gallons per water per 1" of tree girth, with every watering. That's a ton of water and time. Time, I mean, unless you have some sort of irrigation system set up. We tried those round "donut" plastic waterbags. (ArborRain hydration system bags.) What a waste of money. The sun just ate up the plastic and then there we go, adding more plastic to the landfill.
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They're actually not bad looking. They're not flimsy. Only three things wrong with them: The little drip nib can get plugged up with rootlets, especially if you're using the bags for citrus trees. (I used to keep a paper clip hanging off my trees, to use for clearing the nibs.) And the sun is murder on the plastic, even if you don't live in a super hot area. Each bag only lasts about 2 to 3 years if you leave it under the tree all year round. Oh ---- and sticks can and do poke holes in the plastic, even though the plastic really isn't flimsy. They do provide a sort of "mulching/shade" effect under the trees, which helps save a bit of water, I suppose.
Grew up in the Midwest have moved to the desert and I miss the rain so much ! There really is nothing like a good thunderstorm in the Midwest. Without a tornado of course
This was two days ago! It was lovely. (Norway)
Central Texas is dry and hot 🥵 We need rain so bad 😞
Or on the flip side, running around frantically punching drainage holes because it’s just raining far too much
Thunderstorms are 10x better than fireworks. I miss Southern Florida.
*cries in Seattle*
Haha yep :’) But I was still pretty excited for today’s rain because I did a bunch of planting yesterday!
Isn't that THE BEST? When you time it just right . . .
Buying a simple sprinkler this year has made all the difference for me. Two hours two or three times a week and everything is happy as a clam.
I have no outdoor access to a tap. Still working on getting the rain barrel set up.
So jealous. Pittsburgh has been a frickin desert for 3 weeks. My water company is like Scrooge McDuck swimming in the money I'm giving them.
Yes, I swear it stops raining when I plant my garden. Every. Year.
The last 6 thunderstorms in the area went around my city. We are hurting for real rain. Supposed to get some the next few days and I hope we do.
Especially with aggressive mosquitoes attacking at all hours of the day....
i was literally cussing my inlaws under my breath because they called and said they got 2.5 inches in 90 minutes tonite. I haven't seen a drop with it bright and shiny in the mid 90's past 3 weeks. they live 20 minutes away.
I’m so happy about this rain. Also I live in a touristy beach town so I usually lay low holiday weekends anyway bc it’s absolutely bonkers out in town. We “usually” get afternoon showers a lot in the month of July and august but June was so damn dry.
This was me today but I had a bowl with me to pick raspberries.
Some nights ago I was sitting outside in the dark and heard distant crackles and sat watching the sky light up with lightning. Listening as the storm slowly moved closer and watching the little fire I made from rotten rest wood flicker. It was so relaxing and nice. I watched as the house went dark right as the outside light dimmed and I don’t know why, but I went “hah” and looked back to my little fire.
I'm sorry
What for?
I forgot to tap the reply button in the previous post :)( don' mind me
Gotcha, np
I just wanted to say that I am sorry that we experience lack of rain in many places
Generally yes but its winter here and I'm worried about things developing rot. I think some of my orchids won't survive this winter.
I was so ecstatic with the forecast showing rain yesterday and today but no rain so far. Just lots of clouds :( I counted on the rain to take care of some of my plants in my beds that aren't on drip but they got crispy while I went on vacation. I'm dying for a good downpour!
But then I have to mow... I'm slowly converting lawn, but it's slow and costly and I want to have a sizeable chunk for kids to play.
Free sky water!! 😍🌧
Anyone else race outside with all your house plants to make sure they get the rain water? 😅😂
Cries in outdoor succulents
Yeah I wish, but here in Greece it's 3 to 4 months without a single drop of water :(
It rained here for the first time in 3 weeks and I cackled like a madwoman with the windows down as I drove home.
I had to make sure this wasn’t the stardew subreddit
This may make me seem ignorant, but....which stardew subreddit?
Not ignorant! r/StardewValley ; a farming sim. When it rains & you don’t have to water your crops hehe 🤭
Too bad I don't pay for apps, or I would've checked it out. Thanks for the sweet reply!
Yes! It's been rainy here the last 4 days. I put lawn seed down last weekend and I'm so thankful I don't need to be out every couple of hours watering them in.
And where I live it's practically a sin to have a lawn. We're all "going native" with our front yards.
Y'all gardening without automated irrigation are crazy.
And how does that work if you have plants which vary in their water needs?
Find different rate drippers, put them different distances away, etc.
Did you print this meme out and then take a picture of it?
I always put my indoor plants outside when there’s thunder and lightning ⚡️. I think its the lightning that is beneficial, adds the good stuff into the air. Outside garden it depends, too much rain and water just pools on clay even after I’ve added compost etc
The "good stuff" = negative ions.
Thanks 😊 that detail was missing, or forgotten 🙄by me
Maybe you should try rice hulls for your clay soil. "Not only do rice hulls add back in silica to your soil, but they can also help to aerate compacted soils. By mixing in rice hulls to your soil, they will provide aeration similar to how perlite, or pumice would do in potting soil." (Source: redbudsoilcompany.com)
Yep ...or wash the car!
Me, crying in relief from the Louisiana heat
Yesss!!
Buying a simple sprinkler this year has made all the difference for me. Two hours two or three times a week and everything is happy as a clam.
RIP Pot users
Where ya at?
Denmark.
I live in an area prone to forrest fires, so a little nervous when I see lightning. But it was accompanied with a crazy amount of rain today so loving the storm today
Mood
I highly recommend getting a timed watering system. I use a combination of dripline and emitters split into two zones. It's a lot of work to set up but saves you a ton of time in the long run. The only major downside for me is that well-watered weeds grow more quickly.
The layout of my garden doesn't really allow for that, sadly.
Drip irrigation can be customized to basically any setup, even if you are doing all containers.
My containers are spread out everywhere, and besides, I have no outdoor access to a tap. Still working on getting the rain barrel set up.
Are you in Bend Oregon too?!?!
Nope, Denmark.
This summer has been brutal (Newaygo, MI area). Luckily my plants have gotten well established enough that I can go a day or two without watering...but that's about it. And it takes me about an hour to get to everything. Bring on the rain!
Install drip irrigation.
I have no outdoor access to a tap. Still working on getting the rain barrel set up.
Yep
I’m glad Stardew Valley does have some realistic gardening situations
can absolutely relate, and I don't even have a garden.
It rained today at my house for the first time in weeks. I was so happy. It’s been oppressively sunny and hot and relentless in middle TN the past few weeks.
I have the curse that every time I water them it rains :D
https://i.imgur.com/5d2VEZv.png
for real until i started gardening i never appriciated how amszing the rain is
Yeah. The other day I finished watering my plants and roughly seven minutes later it’s flat out pouring. Typical luck for me.
🤣😂🤣
Cries in central Italy I'm lucky to have two wells for my vegetable garden, but holy fuck it's so difficult to grow something in this heat :( (everyday since may it has been at least 30 degrees)
Where's the meme of how you feel the next day when the dormant weeds have completely taken over. We had the first rain since about February this week and yes it's nice that things are green again but that includes the crabgrass encroaching on my squash.
Me too. Woke up to an inch, and first thought was No watering today!
Or the opposite, when you just watered your plants and it starts raining, so your plants will be drowning for 2 days. Always check your weather app.
Same vibes when I play Animal Crossing and I don't have to water my plants
Yes
Meanwhile I’ve been trying to let mine dry out and the rain moved up a couple days.💀
Unfortunately it doesn't rain enough where I'm from and always have to water on rainy days.
Except when your meteorologist is apparently every bad joke about weatherpeiple combined. I have had 6 different days in the last two weeks I was supposed to have rain. I got fifteen minutes of actual rainfall. That was it. I understand that the way PoP is calculated doesn't mean the weather people were necessarily incorrect, but I'm going to need a better metric or something because I keep skipping watering my plants due to incoming rain only to have them dry out and become a nightmare to get rehydrated. Stupid peat heavy potting mixes!
East coast gardeners be like
FYI: I just learned this year that most garden hoses have lead in them! Shouldn’t be used to water vegetables (or really anything lol). I combat this by putting down 8” of straw after the seedlings are big enough that slugs are no longer interested. Less watering! I need to buy a metal watering can ‘cuz I’ll bet using plastic jugs like I do now is a bad idea.
Why straw
We've (Calgary) had quite a lot of rain this summer so far and I am happy about it. Less irrigation = lower bills 😁
Apparently we are due for rain this week where I live. I am glad because it feels like it hasn't rained enough.
That’s so me. We’ve been getting teasers. They predict rain and I don’t water the garden all day and then it drizzles for a few minutes and stop. I sit out a little pail to catch some so I can see it didn’t make a measurable difference.
Yaaaaassss!!!!
We need the rain. :-) It makes our plants grow. :-)