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sueshells

Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 690
Location: North Bucks

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 11:03 am Post subject: Flipping Rain!

Here in rural North Bucks we are having the wettest drought since records began!

On most days since the drought was declared I haven't been able to get near the allotment. So much to do and impossible to do it at the moment. It is tipping down as I type. I have a greenhouse (two actually) so will be sowing seeds into pots and trays but if this weather continues I am not sure if I will ever get them into the ground.

Never rains.....etc.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 11:15 am Post subject:
I know, same here. It's vile. But we really, really need it - we are going to be short of grass if it doesn't continue.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 11:19 am Post subject:
Pretty wet and windy here too.

sueshells

Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 690
Location: North Bucks

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 11:21 am Post subject:

I love the rain. Rain is my favourite weather! Most of all I love to lie in bed at night and listen to it rattling against the windows. I just worry that all my work will go to waste. I am still betting my allotment in order (this is just my second year on this plot) so I don't have all the beds sorted and ready to receive their allotted crops. In fact half the allotment still needs the beds marking out and preparing.

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 11:31 am Post subject:
It lashed it down here last night. Today the "garden" is Not Very Inviting. A.

DawnMK

Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Posts: 895
Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 11:32 am Post subject:
my day off work and I am in and out so much between rain I an worried i might wear the door out was looking forward to getting a bit done in the garden as well today, hadnt really planned on anything else

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 11:45 am Post subject:
Sun has just home out here

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 12:02 pm Post subject:
Well send it down here please.We can`t get anything done at the moment,work garden or allotment.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 3:03 pm Post subject:

Walking the dog on Ilkley Moor today and its like one huge sponge.

We've had a pretty normal amount of rain here really over the winter, but the grounds too wet to work right now and as always there are loads of crops to go in. If I had the money i'd buy a dozen water butts and save as much of this water as I could just in case the summer turns out to be dry one (stop laughing).

I wonder just how much water you'd need for an allotment-sized garden over a year? Probably an allotment sized water butt

starjump

Joined: 03 Feb 2009
Posts: 196
Location: East London

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 3:26 pm Post subject:

Have been rushing out between showers, planting one tray or one pot of something and then dashing in again - frustrating, but I have noticed that at least it feels quite a bit warmer today, and it is quite warm in my little plastic greenhouse.
The other night, I was out in the front garden at about 3.30am in dressing gown, checking our front gutter - someone's gutter was overflowing so dramatically that it sounded like Niagara, and woke me up. Relieved to find it wasn't ours!

gray_b

Joined: 24 Jun 2011
Posts: 254
Location: Leafy Shires of the Midlands

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 12 7:26 am Post subject:
Even thou we have had some min tornadoes. We still desperately need some more long continual rain. As we are on heavy clay, the rain just runs off. Sunday might be a good day for continual rain. Besides which me 2000 litres water butts are only 25% full. I have been trying to plant some of my last bare rooted fruit trees for this season, and the soil is claggy on top but dry and crumbly below.

sueshells

Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 690
Location: North Bucks

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 12 10:56 am Post subject:

I too have clay and the plot is surrounded by hedges and tall trees which very quickly suck the moisture out of the ground. I need just the right amount of rainfall at just the right time or my soil is either too heavy or rock solid. I am still learning how to cope with this particular plot. I have a standpipe and, last year, as much free water as I needed but this year is a very different matter. Big plot for a watering can to cover.

It will be an interesting year!

Mutton

Joined: 09 May 2009
Posts: 1508

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 12 5:08 pm Post subject:
Suggest a couple of lengths of old guttering (from Freecycle perhaps) and you might be able to rig a basic irrigation system - as in pump into one end of guttering and it tips out into the bed at the other - a little less walking.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 12 8:14 am Post subject:
I have to go and move the chickens this morning,its pouring with rain,again.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15981

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 12 10:20 am Post subject:

Everything here in Hampshire is very wet too. Hoping the weather forecast for tommorow will continue to improve as we have a farmers market.

The garden is soaking, and I am rather loth to do anything in the raised beds even though the soil is light. I have some things to plant out, but it has been so cold and wet, I haven't bothered. The root crops I sowed a few weeks back haven't bothered coming up yet.

The woods are really muddy and getting around them is difficult.

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