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Denman the Great
Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 09:54:41 »
I dont want this to sound like a moan, but whats happened to the fabled 'April Showers' then?
I dont know about anyone else but my garden could do with a drop of rain now, if only to water the potted and newly planted stuff. We seem to have gone rapidly from one extreme to the other in a few short weeks. I have areas of soil in my garden that have dirty great cracks in it (i guess where the heavy rain compacted it and formed a crust).
I shall be having to water next!
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froglets
Hectare
Posts: 1,150
"Chust sublime"
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 09:57:30 »
Had to get the hosepipe out last weekend as some of the new plants were looking a bit sad. Ok, I garden on sand, but even so, this is the earliest so far I've had to resort to watering.
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Chris Graham
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Stirling, Scotland
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 12:40:37 »
I was thinking the same, my veg plot has turned a grey colour instead of the nice brown it was (dried out).
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Mrs Ava
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Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 16:46:41 »
My lovely London clay Essex garden is still sticky, so I am pleased that we have had no rain. ;D
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tim
Hectare
Posts: 18,607
Just like the old days!
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 18:32:14 »
If we'd had rain, these would have been twice the size.
But I might not have wanted to go out & pick them!!
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Larkspur
Acre
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Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 18:53:02 »
I think it is me that is causing this :D. After I planted my first early potatoes last year it virtually never rained till I dug them. I planted the same variety last Saturday and according to Metcheck here we go again. Sorry ;D ;D
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manicscousers
Hectare
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www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 20:17:02 »
well, we got some this morning, not for long but enough to water everything in :)
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quizzical1
Acre
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Ceanothus in Northampton
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 21:18:33 »
I have already nearly emptied the 200 litre water butt in my garden this week, just watering in the g/house and all the various pots around the garden. It only collects from the conservatory roof, and in my estimation will take 1/2 to 3/4 " of rain to fill it back up.
I suppose it'll be back to using the hose if we get no rain?
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grawrc
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Hectare
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Edinburgh
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 05, 2007, 21:19:08 »
global warming? climates are changing everywhere. It's positively mediterranean here in Edinburgh. I've been working in t-shirt for days. (normally winter woolies at this time of year)
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Amazin
Hectare
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N W London
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 06, 2007, 00:34:02 »
Would Monday suit you, GC? It's just that I plan to wash the windows over the Bank Holiday. Depending on how heavy you want it, I could do the car as well?
;D ;D ;D
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Garden Manager
Hectare
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Denman the Great
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 06, 2007, 23:28:42 »
If anyone saw Gardeners World tonight you will have seen that they, like EJ still have quite damp soil. I dont know if i am jealous or relieved. Back a month ago i was moaning my soil was too wet (at least in some places). Now i am apparently moaning it is too dry! Well not really. Whilst I curse my soil sometimes, to give it its credit it has dried out nicely (considering all the rain we had) and i can work it easily.
It would just be nice to have a bit of rain to water in all those plants i m moving and planting at the moment. My water butts are going down at a shocking rate, (I have 4), and its only easter! And to think not so long ago they were overflowing so much I was having to dump large amounts of water down the drain! Perhaps i need a few more water butts. That or one of those big underground tanks (££££s :o) linked to all the down pipes.
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Mrs Ava
Hectare
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Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 06, 2007, 23:31:00 »
We had a lot of rain last Friday as I spent the day on the plot and got soaked to the skin!
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louise stella
Hectare
Posts: 534
We're half way there Mum!!!!!
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 07, 2007, 21:45:25 »
My allotment is like dust - but wahey! they turned the water back on today so great said I and got out the watering can - only to find that a tap had sprung a leak somewhere and it had had to be turned off again. :(
Louise
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caroline7758
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Posts: 7,267
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Re: Wheres the rain gone?
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April 07, 2007, 22:05:45 »
Got back from a week in Portugal today, & think we could have saved some money and got the same weather at home. >:( But the beaches were lovely and the wildflowers were beautiful- I suppose I knew that lavender grows wild in warmer climates but seeing it was a different matter!
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