I was worried sick about my vegetables and herbs that were planted at my open community garden. With the torrential and relentless rain, I reckoned, nothing would really survive. What's more - there is really nothing much you can do! I was told by my community gardeners that all my fruiting vegetable plants were lying flat on the ground due to the sheer weight of their soaked foliage during this time. I was praying hard that the rains would stop...
I woke up this early morning, feeling elated, as I was greeted by the much welcomed sun rays that shone through the windows. I hope this fair weather would persist for the next couple of days although the weatherman had already forecasted that wet weather is to be expected until the end of this week.
I rushed down to the community garden to take a look at my plants. The first thing I did was to check those plots that were recently ploughed to prepare for a new crop of Chinese cabbage. Sadly, many seeds that had been sown in them were washed by the rains. The soil was compacted and those seedlings that germinated did not really survive the floods:
Organic material was also washed away since they float to the surface when the plot was flooded during the rainstorm. The drainage could not cope with the huge volume of water that rained down.
Taking a closer look at the Chinese cabbage seedlings:
That was the fate of unprotected plots. Some of the plots with protective tents made from agricultural fleece and bamboo poles did not suffer as much from the rainstorm. It is perhaps time to construct more!
Take a look at the rainclouds congregating in the skies just outside my window at 11 am. No more rainstorms please!
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