12-17-2007, 04:25 PM
About 2 weeks ago I had a garden to die for. Sugar pumkins, lettuce, zucchini, peas,carrots, chinese broccolo. I harvested a few squash before I left for a trip to Maui, and they were great, along with lettuce, and my pumpkins were the size of large softballs. I came back 5 days later, and after the heavy rain deluge, and everything had wilted and rotted. What a bummer. Even the lettuce withered up and turned brown. I attribute it to too much rain, and perhaps acid rain. The only thing that didn't croak was my cilantro, and carrots, and radishes seem to be inching along. I'm in Mountain View at 2100 feet. I had put in a one foot cinder base underneath the soil originally to drain off the water. My fruit trees and strawberries still seem happy though. Angela