It`s rained

[cleo]

Oh joy-a thunderstorm last night and the first `proper` rain for ages.  And another storm brewing as I type.

My soil was getting the look of a dust bowl

[cleo]

[Kea]

A bit yes!!!!!
And doesn't the air feel nicer so much fresher.

[caroline7758]

Yep- got drenched walking today but not complaining as i won't need to water tonight!

[Tin Shed]

It poured here last night, but dug up the first lot of potatoes this afternoon and it was bone dry underneath.

[compo49]

We have just had a heavy down pour here in mirfield west yorkshire so hopefully the lotti and veg plants have got the water they badly need .

Next weeks forecast is more rain for here so will not need to go up and water them but saying that i have some more veg plants that need  to go in.

[Robert_Brenchley]

We had a good downpour, which was badly needed!

[cornykev]

We had a downpour yesterday at my mates barbie and after stopping for a few hours it started again and rained through the night.  ;D ;D ;D

[realfood]

Still no rain in Glasgow!! I suspect that we have not had more than one third of our normal rain since mid December.

[campanula]

big soakings here but still need to water since all my crops are protected by big umbrellas (leaves). Was doing it last night under a brolly, with my hose and sunhat on - only realised that it looked a bit wierd when a couple of cars went round the allotment twice and I definately saw the telltale flash of a camera.

[artichoke]

Very little rain here in East Sussex in spite of promises.

[Mrs Gumboot]

It managed to fill my brand new 210 litre water butt this morning. Knew I should have put two in  ::)

Would have filled it up on Friday if we hadn't been hopeless and left it with the tap open!

At least I won't need to drain it for a couple of weeks looking at the forecast.

[Kea]

Broad beans twice the size they were on Friday...then got home and it's rained again for 10 mins. Weeds will be so much easier to remove tomorrow. ;D

[Le-y]

we've had a couple of days of heavy rain now :) so happy my soil turns to concrete when its dried out!

now at least i can do some serious weeding

[macmac]

Despite our local weather map being totally blue all afternoon it's been just enough to be annoying but not enough to do any good  :(

[lewic]

I'm going camping at the weekend so I can guarantee torrential rain in the South West region!

[Digeroo]

Rain?  What is rain? 

[compo49]

Went to lotti to day. ground has had a really good soaking so i put some more veg plants in and weeded my onion bed they came out really easy.

Forecast for Tomorrow here in west yorkshire is for heavy rain again! rain supposed to spread across the country over the week.

[macmac]

Update 18:50 it started raining ....and still is
whopee  ;D

[betula]

It has finally stopped raining in staffs and the sun is out now..........The sun has got his hat on.............................

[superspud]

Sigh, I found both my large blue butts and my bins full late last night, so I panicked, I lost a lot of water due to their fullness, but, I got lucky and asked the council for some old broken green wheelie bins again, I went and got them today, so I now have 3 more to fill up..... Oh such joy.