New stream across my allotment

[kippers garden]

I have been aay on holiday for a week.  I left everything growing nicely.  I wnt down today to check if everything still ok and found that my spuds have blight ( i expected that though).  But i also found a new stream approx 4 meters  wide flowing across my lottie.  The water is about 4 inches deep and it is flowing over my herbs, beetroot, broad beans, lettuce, sun flowers, some of my spuds, three autumn raspberry bushes and cucumbers and my leaf mould and compost bins!

Rain rain rain go away!

Has anyone else had flooded allotments?

[kippers garden]

[Fork]

Look on ther bright side,you may have fishing rights  ;D

Our plots have had plenty of the wet stuff with one plot at the bottom being underwater for a while.

We have all got blight and mildew and blackspot etc etc....not a good year at all. :(

[kippers garden]

I would rather have a flooded allotment than a flooded house...i think myself lucky!

[gecko]

Not flooded, but I stood still for too long yesterday in the garden and sank up to my calves in the mud.

[saddad]

Hello Fork... Amber Valley isn't that far away...
We often get streams running down our site there are two spring lines on the hillside but nothing in that league.... Several plots have temporary ponds/lakes at the moment and one would make an ideal site for a bog garden...
;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

Yesterday there was a stream running down the lane past the tennis club, pools of water standing on my plot, and the ground was a quagmire. It wouldn't be so bad if things could at least dry out a bit between floods.

[Fork]

Typical isnt it,the sun is out and its warming up nicely,just the right time to get on the plot and start to clear up some of the mess and get into the weeds......but,Ive got old buddy and his wife coming over who I havent seen since 1977 and I doubt if they want to help!

Saddad,Im in Loscoe so not too far away.

[saddad]

I've been out on the plot since about 10:00 Fork... My first ever teaching job was at Ripley Mill Hill back in '84!
;D

[keyhole-kate]

We were flooded (about 2-3 ft water) a few weeks ago. lost just about everything. but, been on a planting frenzy, anything and everything has been sown. had a load of plants delivered the other day and got them planted today. My heart goes out to anyone affected by the recent floods. Just what is happening with the weather?? ??? ??? ???

[Robert_Brenchley]

As far as I can make out (I'm sure I can make a lesson out of this summer's weather!) it's a combination of a strong El Nino and global warming.

It's not the flooding that affects my plot as much as the constant wet; what I've discovered over the years is that a flood needn't do much damage, as long as it flows straight off and roots aren't sitting in saturated soil for too long. Many plants need air (ie oxygen) round their roots, and a couple of days of water saturation will kill some plants. Longtime damp provides ideal conditions for bacteria and fungi, eapecially when plants are already weakened. Hence the amount of rust, mildew, blight, etc. we're all getting.