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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: SPUDLY on May 13, 2009, 18:07:34
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Hi all,
We have been praying for it, and now it's arrived. Looks like we are in for a couple of days worth ;D ;D ;D. Nice steady drizzle at the moment.
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Hi all,
We have been praying for it, and now it's arrived. Looks like we are in for a couple of days worth ;D ;D ;D. Nice steady drizzle at the moment.
Lucky sod! Had a piddly little shower this morning and then nothing since.
My two plots are as dry as Ghandi's flip flop.
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We had just a tad overnight. ;D ;D ;D
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Lucky sod! Had a piddly little shower this morning and then nothing since.
My two plots are as dry as Ghandi's flip flop.
Did Ghandi wear flip flops??? ;D Ahead of the game if did.
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Had a bit this morning then just dull all day... :-\
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Not one single solitary drop. Having to start lugging cans about again.
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A few spots during this afternoon, but now chucking it ....
Temp is 14 C and rain is hissing down ........ at last ;D
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Just been outside to put the hedgehog food down & it has just started raining here in Cheshire.
Janet
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They keep promising us rain here, in Maidstone, then we just get overcast skies and no rain, my soil is bone dry: it's very free draining. Desperate for rain, really desperate.
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Gentle rain here in Swindon since early morning. :) :) Really pleased as I could put my fingers down the cracks in my hard clay soil yesterday
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Coming down in buckets in West Yorks and I was already moaning how wet my clayish soil was!
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They keep promising us rain here, in Maidstone, then we just get overcast skies and no rain, my soil is bone dry: it's very free draining. Desperate for rain, really desperate.
now ain't that the truth all afternoon a fine misty drizzle fell didn't even make the road wet and since half six thats even stopped ::).
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Been that horrible misty drizzle stuff all day that soaks you to the bone. Supposed to be chucking it down in South Wales over the next couple of days.
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its tipping down here in surrey
lbb
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Been mizzling all day here but no real rain yet. If it's with lbb though, it'll not be long!
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pathetic bit of drizzle in London yesterday and no sign of promised downpour last night. Out with the watering can again I guess
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Light rain in Birmingham yesterday, but it didn't really amount to much. Heavier rain forecast for tonight.
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It'll chuck down this weekend in the east midlands.... I'm off to do some lighting at a festival in Belper ......
chrisc
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Agree plenty of rain for us in the EM this weekend if not before just checked the weather station and the pressure dropping all the time, :)
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We've had drizzle, we've had the odd shower. Just got back from the plot and it's still like Ghandi's flip flop only this time a sweaty one, a little bit damp...
Not enough to get down to the depth of a carrot seed though.
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Hi GrannyJanny, didn't realise you were in my part of the world!
Just been rained off my plot - I was in the middle of planting out a third wave of peas when the drizzle started & the rain was running off the end of my nose when I'd finished. 3 miles away near home, it's dry. Typical, although we have a severe weather warning in force for the rest of today. We need the rain, but it may be more than we can cope with.
Ho Hum.
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A little here last night but not enough to do any good. Just need a good rain. Trying to extend the small veg area in garden but impossible to dig (well it is for me)
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Me too, lorna!
Hoping for lots of rain tomorrow!
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I've just looked to see where you are after my comment, Lorna.....then realised why we have the same problem...and Plot 69!
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Nuffink in Sarfest London - well not in Forest Hill. Drysabone! I'll need to get down the plot and water it - that'll make it rain.
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not a drop here in Southend either, been away all week, hope someone has watered for me on the plot. At least the weeds wont be too bad hopefully.
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Well we've had a good amount of rain, got my hoe out waiting for the weeds now. ;D
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2 mm here in the east!
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well nothing last night, nothing today, they say we should get tonight but i won't hold my breath :-\
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Kea. Looking more promising this morning, not sure how long it has been raining. I sometimes have to visit the garden in the middle of the night, well not me but a dog that often gets me up, but last night she slept all night. So I only know it was raining when I got up at 6.50am :)
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4 days and 4 nights worth so far say it will start to clear this weekend ( S wales)
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10 mm overnight here in the east of anglia!!
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At the moment it's chucking it down here in Peterborough. Not sure how long it's been raining for but every drop is very welcome...
Looks like Ghandi might need his wellies on.
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At the moment it's chucking it down here in Peterborough. Not sure how long it's been raining for but every drop is very welcome...
Looks like Ghandi might need his wellies on.
lol ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Finally raining here in SE essex! :)
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It's definitely raining in Leeds - i had to wade through mini rivers to get to work this morning! oh well at least it's doing my plants good even if I've now got very soggy feet!
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not sure how much but some fell last night into this morning, did a test and the soil is wet about 2" down. the sun is out now with some wind so it will probably all evaporate ::).
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Kea. Looking more promising this morning, not sure how long it has been raining. I sometimes have to visit the garden in the middle of the night, well not me but a dog that often gets me up, but last night she slept all night. So I only know it was raining when I got up at 6.50am :)
At the moment it's chucking it down here in Peterborough. Not sure how long it's been raining for but every drop is very welcome...
Looks like Ghandi might need his wellies on.
Yes Finally, it did look a bit light when I got up...about the same time as you, Lorna. It has picked up though I wouldn't say it's chucking it down just steady rain, hopefully it's not just bouncing off!
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Just a couple of light overnight showers here in the Northest of London. :-\ ;D ;D ;D
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Bin peeing down here seems like forever. Went to the plot today and just had enough time to tie the sweet peas in.Its gonna rain tomorrow but we are going to Walsall Rd allotments for their open day whatever
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Stopped raining lunchtime, have had quite a lot of sun. Hopefully we will get a drop more rain soon but what fell did soften the ground a little.
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I washed my windows yesterday, i've been putting it off fo weeks!!!!!!!!!!
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We had a thunderstorm this afternoon. Naturally it happened just as I got to the site!
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It started here at about 7 pm and is now falling steadily. Whoopee!
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'rain at last'. My god, it never stops here.
:-[
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Woke to rain and it also looks like a lot fell through out the night everything is sodden. again all showers stopped at about 08.30 and the sun is out now, the wind is about 40+. when I'm finish reading some more posts on here I'll pop outside to work in the much softer soil :).
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Well Ghandi's swapped his wellies for his flip flops again. This sun and wind has totally negated any effect of what rain we did get here. The plots are like a dust bowl again.
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Getting my waders on tomorrow and going to plant some rice! ;)
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Tried to dig out some couch grass here in East Sussex, and it is as if it had never rained. Dry concrete. Old bath slightly wetter but not much. Annual weeds are loving it.
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IT has been a bit damp hasn't it Fork... we've had about 1 1/2" or rain in the last 48hrs... means the couch and stuff is coming out really easily and we can work the surface of the rest of it ready for planting out... :)
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Down here in deep West Country we've had lots of rain yesterday and today and needed it. Today just like an April day of old. Sunshine and showers. Daren't go to lottie cos I walk there and it WILL pour as soon as I set foot up there on my windy hill! Can we not get a system of rain sharing somehow - seems we have too much down in God's own Cornwall, and always a bit short where I used to live in East Anglia. Anyone got a very big bucket??
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Yesterday I went down to the plot to start the process of raising queen bees. As soon as I got there we had a thunderstorm. Today I got there and we had a heavy shower. At least I managed to get the job done. I had to use my strongest colony to get enough young bees to guarantee well-fed queens, and they're not very nice-tempered; I didn't raise the queen myself, and I'll be glad to replace her. They went mad at me! At one point they followed me down to the far end of the plot, stung me as I took my veil off, and chased me down the lane. They soon calmed down though, once I got the hive back together. The queen and the flying bees (the older ones that sting) are now down at the bottom, and the brood with the younger nurse bees is at the top. The bees there will think they're queenless, and raise queen cells. Then I'll break them all down, give them eggs from the hive I want queens from, and they'll raise more from those.
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Woke to rain and it also looks like a lot fell through out the night everything is sodden. again all showers stopped at about 08.30 and the sun is out now, the wind is about 40+. when I'm finish reading some more posts on here I'll pop outside to work in the much softer soil :).
My soil was a lot easier to break up today, however the heavier rain yesterday still only equated to 2mm. Ah well, it's a start.
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Yesterday I went down to the plot to start the process of raising queen bees.
I've always wanted bees. I bought the Barefoot Beekeeper and the plans to built a Top Bar Hive. Still get the news letter from Biobees but I've never actually got around to building one.
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very heavy rainfall this morning. the sun has just come out about 15 minues ago and it is still windy.
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Yesterday I went down to the plot to start the process of raising queen bees.
I've always wanted bees. I bought the Barefoot Beekeeper and the plans to built a Top Bar Hive. Still get the news letter from Biobees but I've never actually got around to building one.
Have a go, it can't do any harm, and they really don't go mad at you very often! I can't wait to get rid of that queen.
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I managed a couple of hours on the lottie last night and the rain made the soil quite nice to get the couch grass out... and will have watered in the stuff I planted.
Today I am hopping in and out between showers to plant up peas and beans in toilet rolls in the garden (temporarily being put in mini greenhouse. will go on the lottie when they are seedlings - fed up of the birds eating everything otherwise).
Bored of the rain now though - and it looks set to continue for a few more days. Boo.
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We've had rain this morning and yesterday morning. Did some home gardening yesterday afternoon and the ground was bone dry ::). Won't get to the lottie until Tuesday, hoping the rain has had more effect there.