Growing a dye garden- 4

Who would have thought May 2021 would be the wettest and coldest month of the Spring season, the most unpredictable with hail pouring down the sky and hitting the ground so hard! How can our seedlings cope on the exposed roof, will they make it through this turmoil, not to forget the snail bites added to their trauma?

Roof garden after a hailstorm.
Observing seedlings after hailstorm. Sunflowers, carrots, hollyhocks and woad looking a bit battered.

Seedlings of Coreopsis flowers and Japanese Indigo swamped in water after heavy rain, wind and hailstorm that took away the roof cover.

We had to drain the water, remake some sheltering roof for some of the seedlings, too young and fragile to resist the unexpected weather temper!

Despite all this, most of the seedlings show their resilience and we even get a great surprise!

Pot marigold with few dented leaves (left). Safflowers, borage (with a big hole in a leave) and healthy growing radishes.
The radishes are ready to eat!