Rain Dance....PLEASE

[MrsKP]

look you lot, would you pray harder for this miserable weather to shift south a bit please ?

25mph winds and horizontal torrential rain.  i have brought the lilies in for safety but everything else is having to take their chances.

ONE IS NOT AMUSED !!!!

8)

[MrsKP]

[Emagggie]

Can you blow it this way please MrsKP,

                  We're

                                       still


                                                          dancing.................... >:( 
;D
                                ;D                                                                  ;D

[supersprout]

LOL emagggie, blowing a gale here, picturesque fat clouds whizzing overhead, and still nary a drop :'( they must all be heading for kaypee ;)

[Emagggie]

Then I think we'll have to turn round and dance in the other direction....... ;D

[grawrc]

Bucketing down in Edinburgh and apparently heading South? :D I think everywhere except the deepest South East is due for gales and refreshing wetness.

[Mrs Ava]

Blowing a gale here in Essex tonight!  Maybe it will blow the rain in.

[MrsKP]

Can you blow it this way please MrsKP,

               

i'm trying ........... i really must give up this smoking !!!   :o  bin blowing for 5 hours now  !  at last it has stopped but it's freezing and tres tres windy.  let's put it this way, i wouldn't want to stay out tonight !

::)

[busy_lizzie]

Had a really heavy shower here yesterday and windy too. This sun is back out this morning, but quite a lot of heavy clouds so might have some more rain today again. Snap; EMaggie, got the same CD "timeless" last week, -great to dance to.  :D busy_lizzie

[Mrs Ava]

Yay, rained overnight!  Sunny but still breezy today.  Still, a drop more tonight wouldn't go amiss!

[Emagggie]

Just a teensy weensy drop here last night, soooooooooooooo...........


we're STILL dancing. Ha. >:(     join in, Busy Lizzie 

[Hyacinth]

Minimal rain, blowing a gale, my toms and I aren't happy, and it's SO cold :(

Summer solstice been and gone and think I'm miserable :-\

[supersprout]

Snap lish, hay bales sheltering (ha!) pole bean plantlets, nearly flew away cloching the newly planted globe artichokes, tomatoes skeletal and thirsty, jerusalem artichokes flat on the ground, use them as a windbreak ha ha ha ha :-[ :'(

happy solstice 8) 8) 8)

[MrsKP]

got home tonight to find one tomato plant sliced in half, complete crop of broadies horizontal, courgettes sliced every which way, brand new poppies that were still growing totally flattened, total swamp everywhere and picked 3 strawberries.

next year everything is going under glass.  i can't take this disappointment.

am beginning to see the wisdom of growing to your local conditions i.e. if you live in an area that is renound for it's wind, rain and gales - DON'T grow things that will break under the pressure.

am gutted and i have a five mile exclusion zone around me atm.

:'(

[Hyacinth]

am gutted and i have a five mile exclusion zone around me atm.

:'(

Braving the elements and exclusion zone to send you a virtual hug (( ))
(am now tazzing off at high speed in the opposite direction - I'm not that brave)  ;D

[MrsKP]

:-* :-* :-*

i'm thawing out, drying off and seriously looking at a 12' g/h.

;D

[Emagggie]

So sorry to read about your troubles MrsKP. I shant moan about our lack of rain again.Good idea to get yerself a nice cosy greenhouse though. ;)

[MrsKP]

cheers m'dear.  i'm calming down now, which is more than can be said for the wind !

this year i've gone gung ho and chucked everything in expecting a nice fat harvest at the end of it with no hiccups, next year i shall be far more choosy and grow things that have got a better than average chance of success given the local conditions.

it's all in the planning!!! am i'm learning that the hard way.

i suppose the plus points are that the existing g/h is standing up well to the battering, the mini ones seem to be locked down well and not moving either and everything that  was covered is ok, the hanging baskets were already in the g/h so whilst i can't actually see them, they're unscathed even if i can't actually get in there to water anything !!!   8) .   i did get three strawbs and i have a living room full of 4' high lilies most of which only have superficial damage  so i shall go and have a nice hot bath, take my seed catalogue with me and look for dwarf varieties !!!

the joys of living on the west coast of scotland!!   ;D

[busy_lizzie]

Our German visitors have now gone off on their tour of Scotland in their hired car.  Felt sorry for them when I saw the weather forcast last night - gale force winds and a huge blanket of rain clouds over Scotland.  ::)  busy_lizzie

[lorna]

Mrs KP. You should have sent me a text. I would have told the ghost of Queen Victoria at Osborne House IOW that you are not amused ;D Didn't have a drop of rain all week, did have some gusty winds so I chickened out and wouldn't go on chair lift at The Needles with grandson this year!!!

[Hyacinth]

Oooh Lorna, do they have a Stannah at the Needles, then? 8)