I just got 4 inches of rain in less than 2 days and my garden completely flooded out. A rain garden is very different from a RAINED OUT garden, so here are a few thing you should do after a torrential downpour to make sure your plants are still healthy:
1. Not all plants react the same to rain
2. Amend with organic fertilizer if your soil is washed out
3. Consider containers or raised beds
4. Lighten up on the mulch
5. Inspect your plants for disease and damage after the storm passes
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Ok you said mitigate it but how…im am super frustrated with My garden and we have gad a super rainy season and my cucumber plant leave that were beautiful green days ago turned yellow then white even after amending the soil and adding coffee grinds for nitrogen…also had my planted tomatoes stop producing and what it did grow split and rot. My Zucchini just went brown at bottom and holes in all leaves and flowers fell off no females produced and everything is just wet…i ysed neem oil and soap and added fertilizers and tried fish and seaweed blends and nothing is going right with those I mentioned or my beans or kale and even some radish please help
We need a follow up. Did the rain effect your end yield
Getting a week of rain in htx videos been helping
What is a hurricane is coming? Should you cover the garden?
Cool video…. first time seeing a high-functioning Urban garden on YouTube
Came here because I thought about growing lettuce in a heavy rainy spot so now that I'm attracted to lettuce, I will
Would I bring my peppers in to a more covered area when its raining? I know that peppers prefer hotter/drier conditions
Kevin Espiritu = Attracted to his own lettuce
Watching this as soon as i heard " a typhoon is coming"
Man I love your show. I’m a truck driver and hour podcasts get me through long drives. I just wish the podcasts were longer lol. I see you got a Subpod too man and that’s awesome. I had to buy two and another for my mom.
Anyway, I’ve never heard this mentioned but I figured I would ask you before the other podcasters I listen to.
I recently discovered the importance of pH in water. And I noticed my rain water is nowhere near the 6.5 mark.
So if I add an acid (General hydroponics pH Down), do you think I am doing any harm to my garden, which in turns sends it to me? Thanks man.
Should try live in tropical country like Malaysia. Almost everyday got heavy rain till sometimes, can be flooding. Really challenging to manage it. Any additional tips?
Your loquat tree!!!!
My butterbaby squash seedlings just fell over after the rain 🙁 i've repotted them 2 weeks ago and they were growing healthily… until the rain.
The idea that nutrients can be washed out of the soil is not true IF you're looking after your soil properly. If you use non-organic liquid fertilisers then the nutrients are just sitting there waiting to be washed away. If you're feeding your soil properly & using organic methods then the nutrients are stored safely in the bodies of microorganisms such as bacteria & fungi. These guys cling on to the soil particles so can't be washed away by rain then they exchange nutrients with the plant via the roots, so no nutrient depletion! Source: Jeff Lowenfell's 'Teaming with microbes'. It's a good book!
Rain is ok as long as the plants still get the warm (sunlight). Getting the fruits (tomatoes, chillies, eggplants , etc) , however can be really challenging. Nutrition in later case doesn't matter.
i love your channel because every time i have a question you lowkey answer it without me having to ask for you to put it in a video lol. Like I just potted a blueberry plant and i remember you said its a shallow root plant and lettuce is a shallow root plant so now i dont have to worry too much about the rain later today 🙂
Tq sir… great video
I've paid for a community plot of garden this year and just found that they gave me one of the 2 plots that flood. I planted bush bean seeds last week, but now after tons of rains, I'm afraid they're ruined before they ever get started. Haven't planted tomatoes and peppers yet thank God! What can I do to fix the ground so this doesn't happen again?
Hi, we're entering week two of constant rain too! Any tips for tomato plants or basil plants? Six days ago I potted mine out in fabric bags and its been raining almost non stop since, the wind has also picked up. I've brought them back inside and now they are sitting in the bath tub for a break! Its my first time growing anything so I really don't want to loose them. Should I repot them in new dry soil?
Thanks for the tips! What are your thoughts on transplanting in the rain? I have some tomatoes that really need to get in the ground, but I worry the rainy and cooler weather will shock them too much.
I know the skunk is being a menace but when you said what he was doing i laughed alot lmao
HELP! My cucumbers and zucchini got flooded during tropical storm Elsa. I moved them back and they still got hit! Can I repot them? I’m sooo new to all of this. Can I save em? Or just give up? They were just started to produce a lot of fruit. ☹️
Do a lot of nutrients wash out or is it negligible. It rains here everyday probably about an hour or two in the Caribbean