Not quite as bad as it first looked

[Ranger J]

Last Thursday we had a wind storm and a hail storm that drooped about five minutes of jawbreaker size hail.  As soon as it stopped I went out to look at the gardens.  They looked a mess.  The squash leaves had been shredded and the tomatoes looked like someone had fired a  shotgun into them.  Quite a few of the smaller plants had been cut right into.  The corn patch had been blown flat and several of the thick stems had been cut into.  In short everything seem to be a disaster.  All I could think of was all the time I had put into it this year and now it was shot to ****.
Well we had to leave for a couple of days to attend the funeral of my wife's elderly aunt and when I got back I just couldn't bring myself to look at the garden.  When I got around to it this morning I found that the plants were a lot more resilient than I had thought.  The corn, those that had not been cut into, had stood back up and did not appear to be in too bad shape.  Well if I can just keep the squirrels out I may get some roasting earn yet.  The squashes were blooming and less of the small plantings were beat down than I had first thought.  We had the first of two days of sunny weather and things are looking up.

RJ

[jvs]

It's not too late to get some late Cabbage in, and a crop of Pole Beans still have time to produce if you get them in this week.  Suckers pinched from your Tomato plants and planted will grow and produce.  Onion Seeds can be planted soon for next year.

All is not lost just yet, as long as you don't get an early frost in your area.  There is still almost 100 growing days before cold weather arrives in the northern parts, longer if you are more southern.   Plus alot of places have those tomato and other vegetable plants still available for sale at well below normal prices.