We never imagined when we planted our garden this year that we would have to be concerned about the garden flooding. In the spring, yes, it can flood, but in the nine years that we have lived here we have never had flooding in the summer!
In the picture above, you can see the corner of the garden is flooded. We lost about 6 tomato plants, bean plants, and some corn. The cucumbers seem to be enjoying the soggy soil. Our raspberry plants, on the other side of our property, have just about quit producing. We were puzzled at first because they looked so beautiful a couple weeks ago and we were expecting tons of fruit, but we just realized that they too are drowning in soggy soil. :(
Here you can see all our squash and zucchini under water.
The flooded area beyond the vines is our soccer field. Soccer is one of our favorite summer activities. We usually play Mike and me against the kids, and any time we have company we love to play against other families. But this year the soccer field has been flooded since the snow melted! Guess we will have to take up water polo or something. :)
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