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Title: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: greenscrump on April 29, 2007, 10:06:08
It's raining at long last in Rye  ;D  ;D  ;D  nothing to do with the fact I have a washing machine full of sheets and duvet covers all ready to hang out ......  ;D
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: lorna on April 29, 2007, 10:18:15
Please, please send some up here!!!!! Preferably not today gotta get raised bed made!!!!
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: greenscrump on April 29, 2007, 11:00:24
Good luck with the raised bed - will send some rain for tomorrow........ if only it were that easy   ;D
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: theothermarg on April 29, 2007, 16:16:10
it rained here this morning :D but didn,t last long  :'( went to the plot yesterday
and where the failed winter cabbage was has great wide cracks in it  OH has dug where i didn,t want him to and now it,s big hard lumps that are crying out for a good soaking  :P hopefully i shall be able to do a raindance by the end of the week
marg 46 hours to go
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: greenscrump on April 29, 2007, 19:08:35
Do you have water on your site Marg?? we soaked the bed for our pots the night before digging (at least 12 watering cans full ) and it worked a treat  ;)
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: mc55 on April 29, 2007, 20:23:37
not even a whisper of rain up here  :(
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: theothermarg on April 29, 2007, 22:33:09
yes we have troughs and rainwater butts OH gave the spuds, onions and beetroot  about 10 cans it,s incredible that the 1st potatoes are peeping up
things are difficult at the moment as OH is not a gardener, i am but have had my leg encased in plaster for the last 6 weeks so can,t do a lot of carrying would love it to rain so i can give lumps a good bash
marg
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: Barnowl on April 30, 2007, 14:19:40
Quote from: greenscrump on April 29, 2007, 10:06:08
It's raining at long last in Rye  ;D  ;D  ;D  nothing to do with the fact I have a washing machine full of sheets and duvet covers all ready to hang out ......  ;D

It was raining in Hamstreet as I set off for London on Sunday a.m. but dry as a bone 4 miles away as I approached Ashford. Normally the other way round with less rain than the rest of Kent - is it the same for Rye?
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: Multiveg on April 30, 2007, 18:00:17
What is rain?  ???
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: greenscrump on April 30, 2007, 20:11:40
It seems to be Barnowl, have only lived here since last summer, after a v wet and windy winter we have had one hours rain in about 5 weeks.  Looking at metcheck and the beeb it does seem to pass us by down here, although the long term forecast says that over the next month the SE generally will miss out on the rain.....
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: greenscrump on April 30, 2007, 20:12:32
Are you down in the SE Multiveg??
Title: Re: Rain at last !!!!
Post by: Suzanne on April 30, 2007, 20:36:40
We have had a couple of hours of rain since the 1st of April which didn't soak in - I am holding off transplanting anything until it rains. So if anyone knows of a good rain dance - rain prayer or anything else can you let me know as getting desperate!
:o