At last, just a couple of showers...
Not a moment too soon, for the first time anyone can remember our only water source on the allotments, a manual pump, dried up!
How is it where you are?
In Oxford we got a couple of wussy little showers yesterday. Sunny again today so far. The clay soil on my allotment is starting to have big cracks again, would love to see some overnight rain!
Large cracks appearing in my undug celeriac cabbage bed. Yesterday's little shower did nothing but did make us a bit cooler :) At least I have water on my lotty but it's a long walk to fetch it worse luck. My brother has no water on his new plot and has no shed yet so I feel sorry for him. All harvested water used up but it must rain soon. I'm looking after a neighbours plots too. Ttt!
Nothing here :'( :'( Keeps threatening, I dance, and it goes away!
10 minutes of sudden fast cold rain last evening, but that was it. Hope it was enough to perk my pumpkins up! Currently sitting here looking at grey sky and the wind has gotten up, so fingers crossed for a bit more!
Just a dampener here too, but better than nothing! The ground is getting too hard to pull carrots, so appreciate even the gentle stuff!
Here in S. Somerset, just a short, sharp downpour which did nothing for the allotment. My clay soil is cracked and parched but the courgettes just keep coming, must be the 3 foot x 3 foot pit full of manure I dug that is keeping them going. I'm very worried about my poor tomatoes, we need 2 or 3 nights of steady, gentle rain  :'(
Never fear, I'm going camping at the weekend, so it's bound to tip down for two days straight.
SM - PLEASE come and camp on the South coast!!!
No rain here for ages. And now there won't be 'cos I've just fitted my new water butt to replace the one with a hole in :( :( :(
It's a cert then Jill ;D It'll be the worst drought in living memory ;D
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You could lose a small Grandchild down that Tim! :o
I am still dancing............................................but like Speedy am away by the seaside for next week so you are guarenteed rain! ;D
Here in Cardiff we had about an hours light rain yesterday morning and there are some big black clouds overhead now but I don't think anything is actually going to happen! Did notice yesterday how much some of my seedlings and things had grown since Sunday morning - what a difference a day makes - but think it is because it was generally much cooler here yesterday and today, not that frying pan type weather.
All you people in the East should be ok for rain on Saturday as I'm going over to my son near Norwich for the weekend and he is planning a barbeque!
I've done my bit for Yorkshire allotmenters by pegging out three loads of washing...
Watford, (J19 of M25) last night did quite well ;)
Stopped me going to dig on the plot for the first time since I took it on :(
Didn't help this, did it??
ooo Tim, poor celery!
We are having a barby on Sunday so it will rain all day!
Drizzled 5 miles away, but all we got is cold and cloud. All the water butts have now been turned upside down and cleaned out. The soil is dry to at least 9 inches depth. I dread to imagine how many plants have now died, at least one tree has gone. We are going to go hungry this Winter if this keeps up!
I know I say that I don't water potatoes. Pity, 'cos the maincrop is starting to go flat.
What next??
little bit of rain yesterday here in bristol but nothing today ,rain forecast for the weekend
get ready for the monsoon everyone !!!
The rain I can replace with the hose!, I wish the wind would knock it off.
I've had to turn all my tomato plants round and push the pots nearer the hedge so it supports them, trouble with pot gardening is that they get top heavy and blow over.
Trouble is now the tomatoes aren't getting the sun!!!
Doesn't do the courgette much good either
We haven't had any rain for ages. It looked threatening yesterday, but nothing. :o
Desperately need some rain as it is taking 1 1/2 hours to water every other day.
If you get any over the next few days, can you send it my way.
I'm near Worcester
Thanks
Blowing a gale in my part of Essex this evening! Great, just as drying as the sunshine!! :-\
Well I could invite you all up to Scotland I suppose. We had quite a few heavy showers today with strong winds. plenty water, want some eh??Â
Shame though, feel sorry for all your lotties and gardens. I am sure you will all get downpours sooner or later and probablay too much so there will be flooding.
:( :( :( :(
It will be heavy rain in N.Yorkshire next week, cos I am going there for a few days.
:) No rain in sunny 8) Brum 8) for a long time and not even a hose pipe ban, :o oops! that's put a curse on it :o better top up my water butt ;D
EJ, I'm in Essex too, good gale blowing, seems very windy this year, wish it would just give it a rest
QuoteIt will be heavy rain in N.Yorkshire next week, cos I am going there for a few days.
Carol,
please visit Skipton area while you're there...!
Quote from: christine on July 19, 2005, 13:17:53
SM - PLEASE come and camp on the South coast!!!
New Forest, so not too far away. Metcheck is still threatening a wet Sunday there.
Birmingham water comes from Wales; maybe they've been having more rain there. It's ccertainly as dry asa bone on the plot.
Had some light rainon monday which dampened the plant pots but didnt do much for the soil which is bone dry again. To add torture to injury the wind today has dried things out even more.
My flower borders are like a desert and if it wasnt for my irrigation system the veg plot would be the same.
Please please please can we have some nice steady rain in (large quantities preferably). I can manage without the hot sunny days for a while.
OK, who has the rain? Not had any substantial rain here for ages. I'm in Dundee we are usually guarenteed rain. it's just aswell my allotment has taps and water is free, I just can't keep up with the watering.
I could take a dust bath on my lottie at the minute.
So whoever ahs the rain please send it here. :)
We all need 'steady' rain for 2-3 days - now, things are getting desperate for us holders!
I have no water supply & have just started to carry gallons to the plot to treat the runners mainly.
The winter veg. is looking very healthy - but, the large whites are moving in & laying!
I'm not gonna let the buggers win this year.
Does rain dancing work??
TerraceMax
It is Skipton I am visiting, so will bring heaps of rain for you and a bit of our wind to go with it to make me feel at home.
We are doing self catering in a cottage outside the village.
Twill rain soon .....
:D :D :D :D :D
Carol,
We have wind, so to speak. It hasn't stopped blowing all year! Just rain for Cononley please!!
Tellboy. Doris pinks has been dancing for us and my 70year old bones have been dancing round the garden for days. All I have succeeded in doing is to give my sciatica a boost ??? :'(On top of that the wind is blowing like mad. ) Dare I say happy gardening? Lorna
Went to the village green today with the kidneys to feed the ducks, and the pond has dried up! Could not believe my eyes! One lonely little moorhen! I hope her babies were big enough to make their way in the big wide world before the pond became a cracked, dried, mud pit!
The stream at the bottom of my plot's dried up as well.
Never thought i would hear myself saying we need the rain it will be good for the garden.
Must be getting old.
And in bucks we have had one shower in the last two weeks or so.
Been dancing since last Tuesday, nothing, rien, nada >:(
But on the plus side I am now a svelte size 8!! ;) ( I wish! ;D )