The weather of late reminds me of the tired, old joke about the disgruntled restaurant patron who asks the surly waiter, “What’s a fly doing in my soup?” A cursory glance brought the comment, “It looks like the backstroke, sir.”
Backstroke, butterfly or freestyle, lots of us have been dealing with too much water lately. While that may be only a minor inconvenience for most of us solved with a good umbrella, our plants aren’t so fortunate. Saturated soils mean we will see lots of root-related problems.