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nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 12:14 pm Post subject: Thank goodness it's rained here in the SE

Phew....our first proper rain for 2 months. Local farmers might even get a hay crop this year if they're lucky,

we're feeding the horses the remains of last years haylage already, the grass verges had started to die off and even the nettles were rolling up their leaves in disgust!

Please no-one moan about the rain just yet!!! We seriously need more or there will be little food for the animals... if it doesn't rain hay prices are likely to reach ï¿½6 per bale or more and people will be fighting each other in their wellies to get it!

Rain dance please!!

What's it like elsewhere?

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 12:21 pm Post subject:
It's showing here as well in what is normally quite a wet location. A few spot appeared on one of the velux windows this morning but it's bright and sunny again. We had a similar spring 2 or 3 years ago which turned into a very wet summer.

Jo S

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 5174
Location: Somerset

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 12:24 pm Post subject:
Heavy rain last night, I am so glad I remembered to close the skylight in the kitchen roof!! But this morning, everything looked and smelled so fresh.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 12:26 pm Post subject:
Same here - we had our first proper rain 2 nights ago for the first time in over 2 months but not really enough - hay crop is going to be greatly diminished and so will the maize silage. I see a winter of expensive animal feed - and veg

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 12:42 pm Post subject:
You wouldn't call it wet here, but it did rain properly for a while. Won't have to water for a day or two!

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 1:23 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

You wouldn't call it wet here, but it did rain properly for a while. Won't have to water for a day or two!

Same here - you could almost see the garden breathing a sigh of relief this morning.

Cheers,
Rob.

BahamaMama

Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 1:41 pm Post subject:
Rain overnight and early morning here - the wet grass smelled wonderful at 2am this morning but it has cleared and the sun has been in and out since about 11am, not as warm tho'

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 5:21 pm Post subject:
I went out for a ride this afternoon and the farm tracks are still as dry as a bone and hard as concrete, it's not been enough, let's hope there's more...just a solid weeks worth then some sunshine please

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Thu May 27, 10 5:23 pm Post subject:
Quite a lot of rain here in the last couple of days. Hail yesterday, and quite a frost this morning, though.

Woodburner

Joined: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 2904
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 6:35 pm Post subject:

Despite everything looking wet this morning, I can see where I watered yesterday evening and where I didn't. I finished off soaking the last two rows of potatoes that I didn't manage yesterday. The mulch had got so dry at some time, that despite my regular watering since the weather warmed up it was only getting wet on the surface inch and underneath was so dry that I had to puddle it in the water sitting inbetween the rows to get it wet! So, yeah, more rain gets my vote too.

VSS

Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 6:36 pm Post subject:
Spent 2 hours watering the garden this afternoon

Dekk

Joined: 21 Feb 2009
Posts: 48
Location: somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 6:44 pm Post subject:
No rain here, anyone know any good rain dances?

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 6:52 pm Post subject:

Definitely need more rain here, too. Despite the very wet winter / early spring, where the ground was so saturated here that the slightest drizzle had water streaming off the surface, it's now baked hard and solid. Like Woodburner, the mulch is so dry that even a "good soaking" with the watering can doesn't really wet the ground beneath the mulch!

I'm trying not to worry about it, because this is Britain, and we rarely have a good summer ... but two things have me a little concerned. 1. The oak broke leaf a good week before the ash here, which usually signifies a dry summer ahead ... and 2. the farmers are strip-grazing the cattle.

Despite that, they've already cut haylage here, so we've certainly had "enough" rain to keep the grass growing so far ... but veggies are struggling without watering.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 6:56 pm Post subject:
Just started here

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Fri May 28, 10 12:29 am Post subject:
It's quite worrying.

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