Low areas are very wet. Crops planted in soils that have been saturated may suffer various problems, even if they survive. Carrots often survive flooding, but the roots have been injured, which results in nubs and forks. Growers should pull carrots as soon as soils dry out and look for dead spots on the tap root. If there is a high percentage of roots with injury, it may be wise to disk the field and replant.
Onions often recover from flooding, but with an increased incidence of internal soft rot.
It is too late to replant onions now, so growers should monitor their fields and apply fungicides to control foliar diseases, as needed. Cultivars that produce large, soft bulbs are especially susceptible to internal soft rot. Growers may choose to abandon fields with a high percentage of soft rot, rather than try to store and sort them. Typical visual indications of bulb or root rots in may crops include slow growth, yellow color, and susceptibility to foliar diseases. May 18 afternoon and evening provided four and more inches of moisture to most of our area.