Garden after the storm

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If if you have been following us on Facebook and instagram you will know that we had a huge hail storm here on Saturday. It was followed by another shorter hail storm with larger hail and stronger winds. All the books and online info we read said not to freak out too much. That after day 5 we would reallly see the damage and by day 10 anything not starting to produce again likely would not. 

We are at day 5 today and there is good news and bad news. Good news is that it appears the good majority of the garden should bounce back. Plants that were too damaged are dead and leaves that quickly turned brown were pruned as soon as we could. Another benefit to the damaged garden has been the large amounts of rain we have had the the past few days. This is suppose to help heal the plants and it is much easier to have Mother Nature take care of the watering for us.

The bad news is yields will be down for sure and that we are not sure if most of the cabbage, cauliflower or broccoli will mAke it. They were shredded and although the plants are still alive they might be too shocked to produce. However, you never know. Our Saskatoon bush was doing quite well, unfortunately a lot of berries were blown off. As long as we get a bit of jam we will be happy. Our two year old is obsessed with Saskatoons so we might be hard pressed to get enough for jam.
Here are some pictures of the damage the day it happened. 
Rhubarb is shredded

Onions

Potatoes blown over

Beans hurting 

Main garden

Beets shredded


Sad cabbage 

Tomatoes while it was hailing 

We will post an update on how things look now tomorrow 

Thanks for reading.

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