I’d said in an earlier post that we’d suffered a few floods here last summer. We have had flooding occur regularly on my property since 1999, but last year’s torrential rains really wiped out a lot of my gardening work.
The July 2006 Flood was especially destructive. We had 2 feet of back-up water (from our sump well) into our basement, destroying our furnace. Up to a foot of runoff water (from uphill behind and beside us and from up the street beside us) raged over my land. I managed to get a short video of the beginning of the flooding, before it got too dark for me to film any more.
Here’s a video of the backyard and vegetable garden. The tomato plants and green beans hung in there, but most of my lettuce, spinach, squash, and all of my onions were washed away.
Needless to say, all this water across my property was discouraging. Like I’d said, cultivating this land has been one very difficult job!
I am praying we have a relatively dry summer and fall. I don’t care if I have to water my garden with the hose– anything is better than flooding. Yuk.
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