How sad.....big or small it is still disappointing.....I know that every one here can sympathize with you because we all have had disasters happen.....I hope you manage to save some of your garden..plants often are pretty hardy in surviving...I have had to go out and straighten up my corn about 4 times and it seems to be doing well...I am sorry about your garden and good luck with salvaging as muxh as possible...It is so disheartening having a beautiful garden one day and a mess the next...The deer ate all my leaves from my pole beans and I was so disappointed but they have once again leafed out and I picked my first bunch of beans from them this morning...good luck...

Hey FBB: Don't feel bad, it happens to me to a varying extent every year. My extols me to hill the corn every year. She thinks that it will produce more prop roots thereby minimizing the lodging. I agree with her about causing greater prop root formation but, still I get blowdown. The reasons I don't like hilling: 1) it is alot of physical work 2) it doesn't seem to stop the lodging 3) I have to flatten the hills back out in the fall (more work). However, this year, in order to reduce the labor I used my tiller to loosen about an inch of soil on both sides of each row and hilled the plants with the easy to move soil. It made hills about 8" tall around the plants. We had 3" of rain wind and pea sized hail Monday evening over a 2 hour period and my corn is still standing. HURRAY! I'm looking forward to picking standing like a homo sapiens rather than a gorilla this year. There may be another benefit to hilling. For the 1st time ever, I have corn root worms. Having the extra roots that formed from hilling may have saved me from serious losses from the worm s the plants may have grew new roots faster than the worms could kill them. About 5% of my plants fell over and shriveled which is how I discovered the (very late in the season) worms.

That photo looks oh so familiar for me. Happens every year. Every time it happens, I am out in the middle of it packing dirt in a mound around the bases of each plant too. This year, it happened & I did the mound thing after a hard rain. It didn`t rain again for several days & was good & hot to dry out the mound work I had done to each plant. For the most part, I didn`t have to do it again after that episode for the rest of the season. That really made me happy. Was a first.

Tally, just thought I'd say that when you come to "swim" at my house - the winds stay south. I am truly sorry about the mess - MN can play horrible tricks on us sometimes. I hope nothing was damaged permanently --- take care ----