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| Second Flood this Season |
Mid June, my calculations put us
53% more rain in spring than last year. Here in Toronto we get a average 74.4 millimeters (roughly 3 inches) a month. Usually relying on supplementary watering during the heat of summer. Monday evening in a space of 2 hours we got 126 mm (5 inches) recorded at the airport, not 10 km from my house. A nearby weather station put it just of 130mm for the day. A all time record for the most rain ever in a day for the city of Toronto, breaking a 1950's hurricane record. During the storm the entire city lost power, and it took 20 hours to get the power back on due to the flash flooding damage. Luckily my basement held up, many of my neighbors were not so lucky with puddles to feet of water running into their homes.
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Kale, mini nantes, vienna kohlrabi, early jalapeno pepper,
portofina zucchini, antohi romanian pepper and farmers market garlic |
Most everything survived. I had some top heavy kale and pepper plants fall over when their soil washed away from their roots, but a little replanting and staking and they seem fine. In fact, I had some of the neighbors over for BBQ and company and the garden produced many a berry, carrot, zucchini, kale, lettuce, garlic etc for snacks. All the more valuable since there was little nearby open and driving anywhere was difficult.
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| hinnomaki red gooseberry |
Thankfully it was nice warm weather, and BBQ and candles was all we needed. Yet another all time record freak weather event? Really people, have you thought about how much growing your own, saves the environment? Its not that tough. In fact man and plant have being doing it since...
Goodness - that was a lot of rain - glad that most of your crops survived it wold have been heartbreaking if they had been all washed away.
ReplyDeleteI am very grateful, thank you! I bought the house in winter with snow on the ground, and was shocked come time to move in that the grass would not even grow it was so sandy. The back yard where the raised beds, looked like a sandpit! It took a lot of work, but I am very happy with the sand base now vs clay which is more common in Toronto. I seem to have about 20 cm of "soil" now and the reason for the wood chips.
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