Wheres the rain gone?

[Garden Manager]

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!

[Garden Manager]

[froglets]

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.

[Chris Graham]

I was thinking the same, my veg plot has turned a grey colour instead of the nice brown it was (dried out).

[Mrs Ava]

My lovely London clay Essex garden is still sticky, so I am pleased that we have had no rain.  ;D

[tim]

If we'd had rain, these would have been twice the size.

But I might not have wanted to go out & pick them!!

[Larkspur]

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

[manicscousers]

well, we got some this morning, not for long but enough to water everything in  :)

[quizzical1]

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?

[grawrc]

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)

[Amazin]

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

[Garden Manager]

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.

[Mrs Ava]

We had a lot of rain last Friday as I spent the day on the plot and got soaked to the skin!

[louise stella]

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

[caroline7758]

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!