Stupid Question of the month...........

Started by jordsbabe, July 09, 2008, 21:05:05

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jordsbabe

.................... When will it stop raining and we can have something called a summer????


Rant over! lol!    :(

jordsbabe


debster

soon please it is driving me mad, its bad enough working shifts and not being able to get to the garden as often as id like now all days off are too wet. weeds are getting to be bigger then plants

Uncle Joshua


cacran

It was the same last year, is this what global warming is???? :-[ All year round.... the same! Beam my up Scotty!!!!

grawrc

Debster I have the same problem! I'm on holiday now and have time to go to my plot but when I got there (after 2 weeks of marking exams and 10 days of visitors and parties and big family dinners when I went only to collect veg for dinner) I found enormous weeds.

All 5 of my Daleks are full to bursting and i've now had to resort to piling up the weeds between my shed and my greenhouse.

On the +ve side: I went to my plot at 11 today intending to stay for a couple of hours, and arrived home at 5. There were intermittent and sometimes heavy showers but I was still able to keep working. I've got about a quarter of the plot sorted! ::) ::)

Uncle Joshua

I think its worse than last year,  last year we had a hot start then a month of rain, this year we had a warm start and then two months of rain and counting...

amphibian

We've had a pretty dry time here in Maidstone, except today, where is it that all this rain has fallen?

vegmandan

I'm going to grow Rice and Water Chestnuts next year then we can guarantee a drought. ;D

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debster

im in sunny Devon but the sun is of the liquid variety

tonybloke

we've only had 1/2 inch so far this month >:(
You couldn't make it up!

amphibian

We've had three inches in two days, but before that it was pretty dry.
My impression is of an East/West split.

jordsbabe

Quote from: vegmandan on July 09, 2008, 22:20:54
I'm going to grow Rice and Water Chestnuts next year then we can guarantee a drought. ;D

PMSL  :)

I'm in the West Midlands I think we've had one dry day which was Monday in about two weeks but it feels alot longer! :'(

sawfish

Its really annoying. I always thought the older guys on the plot were boring by just growing potatoes, onions, leeks and brassicas. Now I know why. THEY ALWAYS SUCCEED!! Its like a fingers up at the weather.

asbean

Quote from: vegmandan on July 09, 2008, 22:20:54
I'm going to grow Rice and Water Chestnuts next year then we can guarantee a drought. ;D

I'm already growing rice (in the cat litter tray). It loves this weather and is already a few inches high.
:) :) :) :) :) 

But I'm going stir crazy. It hasn't stopped raining all day  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
The Tuscan Beaneater

amphibian

Quote from: sawfish on July 09, 2008, 22:30:45
Its really annoying. I always thought the older guys on the plot were boring by just growing potatoes, onions, leeks and brassicas. Now I know why. THEY ALWAYS SUCCEED!! Its like a fingers up at the weather.

You're right you know, conversely I am obsessed with growing tomatoes, aubergines, cucumbers, melons, physallis, chillies. No wonder I often lose.

davyw1

Quote from: sawfish on July 09, 2008, 22:30:45
Its really annoying. I always thought the older guys on the plot were boring by just growing potatoes, onions, leeks and brassicas. Now I know why. THEY ALWAYS SUCCEED!! Its like a fingers up at the weather.

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When you wake up on a morning say "good morning world" and be grateful

DAVY

Emagggie

I have to report from the (reputedly) driest county in England that we have had 2 days of non-stop rain, and if it wasn't for the fact that I lose my footing in my wellies in the mud, I'd be happy. But enough is enough. I'm bored with rain now. Sun please...but then we'd get blight on the toms I expect. No pleasing me ;D
Smile, it confuses people.

betula

So much rain in west midlands over the past few weeks.Had to give up on lots of my gardening jobs so I am skint as well LOL :)

ninnyscrops

#18
So nobody used watering cans at all in June  ::)
If I ever get it all right - then that's the time to quit.

Meg

Think your right sawfish those allotment holeders will jsut be thinking oh this is just  a typical british summer while we it and cry over our "fussy" plants!!! Never mind there has been no floods like there was last year so far...........and there was jsut the smallest bit of blue in the sky this morning......
Marigold

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