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In the early morning light and looking through the tunnel

7/14/2025

The sun continues to rise even though my heart feels as decimated as my bed of pumpkin plants.

I'm sharing some pics of plants that are thriving in the tunnel. Click individual pics for larger images and more info. I am so grateful the tunnel held up through the devastating hail storm that obliterated my outside beds. Yesterday and today I've been hiding out inside of it, soothing myself by nurturing and photographing some of the healthy plants inside.

Yes, I know that some of the plants outside will recover and eventually produce *if* we don't get hit a FOURTH time; but at the moment, it's demoralizing to be out there. I'm doing the best I can and I know every day will get better.

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In the early morning light of July 13, 2025, the day after our 3rd severe hailstorm this year

7/14/2025

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In the morning light... If you look closely you can see the ripped shade cloths, piles of hail that still remain nearly 12+ hours later and my decimated pumpkins bed in the front of the picture. Yesterday I had beautiful vines that were 4 feet long+. Shade cloth had been removed from the pumpkins bed due to sunflowers that had outgrown it. Plus, we'd already been hit twice this year with bad hail, certainly we wouldn't get a direct hit again this year, right? WRONG. Lots of the chunks of hail we received this time were 1 to 2 inches in diameter. It came down so hard and so fast. The picture showing the walk way between the cattle panel arches and our high tunnel was taken some 15 hours later around 9ish in the morning of July 13. Despite overnight temps being well over 50 degrees and the morning sun shining down for hours, piles of hail remained. A couple before and after pics of my daisies and rudbeckia for perspective of the power of this hailstorm.