Last night we had a squall of thunderstorms go through Indianapolis. Besides some flash flooding of storm drains in places, one of these waves brought with it hail. Though frost is a vegetable gardener's worst enemy, at least you can take measures to protect your crops like row covers or Caterpillar High Tunnels. Hail is hail. It comes without much warning and it pummels your crops into oblivion. Inspecting the soil beds this morning, I found that most of our greens are bruised and battered from the hail. Last night I had to stand up the young tomato plants. They were to get trellised this weekend and almost every single one was knocked to the ground. Anyway, we'll see how the crops recover, if at all.
The spinach. At maturity... probably ruined.
The butter leaf lettuce... 8 days from maturity... not looking good.
The romaine lettuce... 13 days from maturity... may have a chance at recovery.
The broccoli... 22 days from maturity... they probably have the best chance of recovery.
It's not all doom and gloom though... we have our first two rose buds!
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