As damage goes, I didn't get much from the recent Colorado floods. I have very little to complain about - my home is on one of the highest points in Longmont and I don't live near the river that splits the town in half.
The storm came, hung out over Colorado and would not go away. The results for the state were tragic - hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
As a result of the week's worth of rain, that just wouldn't stop, my garden had far more weeds than actual edibles. A literal blanket of baby weeds, just starting to peek their heads out. It gave me a peek into what happens if you over-water (to an extreme) your garden.
And also because of the record rain, I could not get out there in the garden to fight them effectively.
I finally got the chance to do some weed mitigation right before I left for California. I didn't do a stellar job. They were all little weeds, so I just took the hoe and scraped them up. It's to be seen how effective that was, but at least for a little while they'll stop hogging water and nutrition from the plants I'm trying to squeeze a decent harvest out of!
It's yet to be seen if the excess water rotted roots or even some of the root veggies I'm growing. It did cause some tomatoes to tear for too much water (apparently tomatoes don't know when to stop drinking ...) and I have a feeling the nutrition that was in the soil has probably seeped away. I will need to do a final fertilizing when I get home from California.
Here's one blog I found looking at what you should do after a heavy rain: 9 Gardening Tips to Do After a Heavy Rain
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