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Allotment Stuff => The Basics => Topic started by: Rose.mary on June 11, 2007, 11:07:11
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I have just been looking at the weather forcast for the comming week and I am very concerned :o :o. They say we are to have a frost on Saturday the 18th June. I do hope they are proved wrong. If they are right how can we protect all those plants ??? ???.
Rosemary
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Unless you are half way up a mountain I doubt it will come to much... metcheck were predicting one all May and it never arrived...
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They've been predicting rain here for the last fortnight, and not a drop has fallen (grrrrr, she says as she trundles off to the plot to water, again....) x
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Long as that rain stays away for Glastonbury, it can water our lottie to its heart's content!
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I have just been looking at the weather forcast for the comming week and I am very concerned :o :o. They say we are to have a frost on Saturday the 18th June. I do hope they are proved wrong. If they are right how can we protect all those plants ??? ???.
Rosemary
They can't get their days right let alone the weather,the 18th is next Monday! :D
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It says rain for the next 4 days in Hull followed by sunshine for the following 3. This almost what it said for last week and we didn't get a drop XX Jeannine
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I take the weather forecast as i do an advert on a bus. It may say Kellogs but they don,t sell them
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I think we may see a few storms toward the back end of the week but frost? not a chance.
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I was at work today and we had a couple of torrential downpours. Got home thinking no need to water allotment tonight, and there had hardly been a drop here, 10 miles away! >:(
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It is torrential rain here in Hull, the school I work at has been closed due to flooding,the bottom end of my lottie will be the same and my greenhouse at home is 2 inches deep.XX Jeannine
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I thought we were in need of some rain but not a monsoon.
Its been nearly a month since i saw the sun here in the North East
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I think the rain may be my fault, as I have hired a strimmer for the weekend!!! :-[
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:( are village has just been given a flood warning (we live near the river Don)
Just got the brolly and had a look at the veg garden, and it's under about 2" of water, I have raised beds, so other than a hammering from the heavy rain I'm hoping the plants will recover (it looks like somebody has been lying down in the potato bed) :-[
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:( sorry, that's our village, not are :-\
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We just went to out lottie, drove in very carefully, water quite deep on the road.I managed ti get out the passenger side by swinging on to a cement block which was not submerged, John followed through my door. In the adjacent shed I managed to slip on some work boots,Johns wellies in the next shed, impossible.
Managed to get onto the path by stepping on the raised bed woods,path seemed to have about 2 inches deep on it.In the distance I could see the strawberry raised bed,with red jewels staring back at me,my very first chance to taste one,so I started to wade down the path,of course it got deeper as I went as the path dipped, dtermined I kept going,eventually it was ankle deep. I made it to the strawberry bed,strawbrries are fine as the bed is a foot high, one side looked shallower so I managed to pick about 3 pounds from that side, the other side was under water about 7 or 8 inches and daren't risk that incase I fell on the mud underneath.I paddle back and managed to grab a brocolli and cauli as I went past, fortunately the two adjacent to the path were OK.
John climbed back in through the passenger side, I passed the veggies, then my shoes, then I got in, took off the boots and pelted them into the shed(no door on this one)
So I am chuffed,I finally have my first strawberries !!!!!!!!
Almost forgot I managed to grab about a dozen climbing beans as I went past too, not a lot, but I coudn't get more without falling in,still first of the season .
XX Jeannine
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Coventry has taken a real hammering with the rainfall, my allotment is totally under water, or so I believe, and the area has the worst flooding Ihave ever seen. It has been dry so far during daylight, so I am hoping that the level will have dropped enough, at least so I can gain entry to assess the damage.
Derek
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Wow hope it all goes down soon for you. Our lottie was flooded back about a month ago and I was suprised how little damage there was, so my fingers are crossed that you will all have the same experience (and your homes and schools etc!)
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Absolutely chucking it down again, so I think I will get thoroughly soaked walking home from work ...
Ah well, at least I can dry off when home, perhaps collect some veg on the way ... (at least it will be washed !)
Derek :D
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Just started sheeting down here over the western outskirts of London, but very welcome as with any luck it'll damp down the dust and grass pollen that's been hanging in the air over our lottie site.
It looks like the kind of 'stop-start' weather that brings immense rain for 20 mins, followed by five mins of hot sun, then repeat the process...
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next week we will be complaining about the lack of rain!!
I have tried to get to my lotty today twice both times it rained.
I am not to worried about flooding as my plot is on the brow of a hill on a downward curve, but i do hope all your plots are OK!!
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They've been predicting rain here for the last fortnight, and not a drop has fallen (grrrrr, she says as she trundles off to the plot to water, again....) x
hope you are happy now. ;D must have been one hell of a raindance that..
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There's a flood warning and severe weather warning for Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Northants for the next 2 days!
Looks like I won't need to get my neighbour to water while I'm away in Kent overnight ;D
Kathi
Just as i typed that, sat on the veranda in this heat - it started to hail!?!
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Ah, i know whats caused it.
Tennis & Cricket!!
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[quote next week we will be complaining about the lack of rain!!
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I live in a marsh area with a very high water table, only dig down a few inches to find moist earth (and that's in August) :)
so consiquently I never, or should I say, I rarely do a rain dance ;)
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Scuba gardening... a new extreme sport?
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having had a good cry watching a film i recorded last week 'House of sand and Fog"
I think i will make an attempt to make it up to the allotment again.
Going to get the boat out! :D
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I've spent the day at a primary school where several classrooms have been flooded with sewage. No idea whether the allotment is flooded as I'm totally bogged down with exam marking.
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My Moderation meeting is on Sunday... so that's me out of circulation for the month. It is so annoying being able to see the lottie ....
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Update - got wet going home, but not as soaked as anticipated. The plot has been, er ... 'rearranged ...' large tubs of leek seedlings have floated around, all the pots in the greenhouse upturned, perhaps not as bad as my imagination had conjured up. Worst bit is the ground is still flooded, and will not bear weight ...
Can't see myself doing any weeding this weekend ... :D
Derek :)
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dear God, I'd like the rain to be turned off now please :-*
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Sorry for all you soggy folk.......torrential rain yesterday here in the driest part of England for a while and today has been beautiful. No doubt we'll get our comeuppance ;D
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Hi
Just come back from lotty.
Now filled second compost bay!!
Due to crack in the lid my chicken poo was under water so i have poured this over the 2 compost heaps and wrapped them up nice and warm as i will not be back on the lotty now till monday. (apparantly chicken poo helps make compost quicker ).
I scattered the bit of poo at the bottom of the tub over all the beds in the plot.
I picked some berries ( red and goose ) and some rhubarb as the leaves were badly eaten by the slugs.
It was however when i was heading back to the car did i realise that i was perhapse not as careful with the chicken poo as i had hopped so have just had to have a shower :-X
I have now decided that dinner at the pub is called for!!
Will be back in an hour or so :-) (pub is 50 yards away)
Darn pub has karaoke on so were going for a chinese.
Cambourne7