I’m still picking damaged veggies and trimming damaged leaves and vines from the garden. We have yet to have enough sun to see if the bean vines are going to perk up and be ok.
Squash Damaged by Hail
The hail hit the squash so hard that most of it split almost right down the middle.
Tomatoes Damaged by Hail
I’m cautiously optimistic with the tomatoes. You can see how banged up the tomatoes and the vines are after the storm. Where some of the limbs were broken, I’m seeing what looks like a bit of new growth. If I can keep the tomato plants alive and if the grasshoppers aren’t too bad, I can get a decent fall crop of tomatoes from these vines, even if they don’t produce an early summer crop. It all depends on the grasshoppers and how much rain we get. All this just goes to show that no matter how good a garden looks, there’s always a whole lot that can go wrong.
As I said Saturday, it could have been a whole lot worse! Or, we could have had a little rain with no hail and my garden would still look very promising but . . life goes on and we’re so thankful that the storms weren’t any worse. The storms that went through here passed through a sparsely populated area. That same storm could have done a whole lot of damage had it gone through town.
Dorothy Matheson says
There is a spray that will set the tomatoes to grow even when it is too warm at night. I have used it in the past.
JudyL says
Using it affects the tomato. Most tomatoes on which you use a blossom set are meatier and have less seeds. Since I grow only organically, I wouldn’t use it. I have used it in the past but do find it changes the texture of the tomato. In order to grow organic, there are things we have to give up.
The blossom set formulas I have will sometimes say “natural” but since it changes the texture/amount of seeds in the tomatoes, I’m not comfortable using it.
dezertsuz says
I’m presuming your house wasn’t damaged in any way, or your vehicles? That’s a mess, as I know from two South Dakota summers when we were traveling! I hope your garden comes back. It’s amazing what life will do – it wants to keep going!
Jeanette says
Take cuttings from those damaged tomatoes. They root very well. Great way to get a later crop for free.
Dorothy Schreyer says
Two weeks ago the Denver area got a hail storm that is now being put at costing 1.4 billion dollars in damage. It closed a mall until the fall because of the damage, schools were closed, the rental car company’s lost cars and it was the mother’s day and college graduation weekend. In some areas the hail didn’t even melt for about a week.
Hail is a dangerous thing to have.