Thank you all. I'm pretty grumpy right now, but it looks like the peas, beans, corn and onions will all be fine.
The squashy things all look real rough, but there are small yellow crooknecks that appear to still be coming on.
The chard was beaten back to almost nothing, but I started trimming off the worst of the damaged leaves today and am left with what look like baby chard plants. Lost all of the beet greens, but the roots are pretty close to ready for harvest, so that's OK.
The worst is the lettuce. I had been supplying three families with a couple of heads every week, but today I could barely salvage enough for a salad for us.
There is still green fruit remaining on many of the tomato plants, but they are all covered with white spots where they got hit with hail stones. Many of the leaves are shot through with holes but only a few branches look to be dead. Some of you may remember that I am conducting an experiment to determine whether or not to sucker the tomatoes. The tomatoes that I have been suckering and training vertically up stakes and strings are looking much better than the ones I have allowed to sprawl. I think they presented less surface area to the storm.
Clean up will continue apace tomorrow.
No retreat, No surrender!
My new answering machine message:
Hello and thank you for calling. We have been members of the NRA since we were old enough to take communion. As a Christian family, we have no interest in your robotic messages of hatred, bigotry and fear. We choose to vote for love, hope, and change, and we hope you will join us. Have a great day!.
