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Digeroo
Hectare
Posts: 9,578
Cotswolds - Gravel - Alkaline
Re: so dry!
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Reply #20 on:
April 13, 2011, 17:02:34 »
A real delluge here. Oh no its just the horse in the next field peeing.
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BarriedaleNick
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Hectare
Posts: 4,135
Cartaxo, Portugal
Re: so dry!
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Reply #21 on:
April 13, 2011, 17:17:21 »
Lol - nothing here in my little nit of South London and the wind is drying the soil out even more..
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Alex133
Acre
Posts: 453
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Re: so dry!
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Reply #22 on:
April 13, 2011, 18:40:19 »
Been raining here for couple of hours at least - could do with a few days of it though.....
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CornishLass
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Posts: 10
Re: so dry!
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Reply #23 on:
April 13, 2011, 19:31:56 »
I was really annoyed earlier as weatherman said heavy rain from early morning so planned my day to get stuff done indoors. Then what do you know but didn't rain til 2pm. We did need it though but fed up I couldn't get down the allotment to finish putting my fence up! Oh well, always tomorrow.....
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gaz2000
Half Acre
Posts: 207
Re: so dry!
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Reply #24 on:
April 13, 2011, 19:36:27 »
its tried to rain here,few spots but thats all
planted spuds yesterday which were watered in,just need a nice rainfall to work through the soil a little
and ive digging to next week,no chance with the dry clay clumps that need breaking up,its like concrete
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Digeroo
Hectare
Posts: 9,578
Cotswolds - Gravel - Alkaline
Re: so dry!
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Reply #25 on:
April 13, 2011, 20:03:58 »
Well all the possible blobs on the radar have passed by now and we did not get enough to join up the spots. Will not water the soil and certainly nothing to fill the empty water butt, only one light shower on the forecast over the next four days.
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aquilegia
Hectare
Posts: 3,590
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Re: so dry!
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Reply #26 on:
April 19, 2011, 07:48:32 »
all we've had since I started this thread was about half a mm! This week we've got temperatures in the mid-20s! :o
On Sunday I dug holes to plant my spuds. A foot down the ground was completely bone dry. :o
So I'm going to have to resort to soaking the ground with the hose. :o and quickly spreading a thick mulch before the lot evaporates again. ::)
I just hope I've got enough compost!
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chriscross1966
Hectare
Posts: 3,764
Visionhairy
Re: so dry!
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Reply #27 on:
April 19, 2011, 09:34:02 »
A couple of days ago they were predicting rain for us for the end of the week.... now they're not.... it's all sunny.... that means either tomorrow or thursday evenign I will spend all the daylight tiem from when I get home to when it gets dark watering the allotment.... argh.....
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Fork
Hectare
Posts: 1,446
Amber valley,Derbyshire
Re: so dry!
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Reply #28 on:
April 19, 2011, 12:50:48 »
I cant remember when we actually had any rain?.....apart from the half dozen spots we had last Thursday at around 11:30am!!
I incorporated lots of manure again this year like I do every year and there is moisture about 6" down below the surface.Im trying to go easy on the watering but if we dont get some soon the hosepipe will be out to top up the butts!
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gwynnethmary
Hectare
Posts: 1,066
Hartlepool
Re: so dry!
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Reply #29 on:
April 19, 2011, 12:56:37 »
I seem to remember we had a dry spring last year, followed by a very wet unsummery summer, and so I'm just enjoying it while it's here, and assuming everything will right itself eventually!
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BoardStupid
Half Acre
Posts: 140
Re: so dry!
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Reply #30 on:
April 19, 2011, 14:17:42 »
I came home from work this morning to see (with some joy) spots on the patio. I thought of the newly earthed up spuds and the freshly erected guttering on my shed aiming for the IBC (1000ltr water butt) thingy me bob.
Such disappointment, not even a covered patio slab !!!!!!! ... I can't afford to keep taking water to plot from house. Charges are huge from last year :(
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antipodes
Hectare
Posts: 3,366
W. France, 5m x 20m (900 ft2)
Re: so dry!
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Reply #31 on:
April 19, 2011, 16:03:46 »
Yeah, dry here too, they are saying northern France has had 30% less rain than it should at this time of year.
I have all my little seedlings in, so I watered Saturday, and Sunday and this morning! Although suprisingly the things I just transplanted this weekend (lettuce, beets, broccoli) seem upright and happy!
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cornykev
Hectare
Posts: 9,893
Sunny Cheshunt just outside North London
Re: so dry!
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Reply #32 on:
April 19, 2011, 17:12:10 »
Dry here too, no rain since mid Feb. :o
When we got our council compost I covered my spud bed with it, and its now damp underneath where I have dug to put the spuds in. :D
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