.................... When will it stop raining and we can have something called a summer????
Rant over! lol! :(
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
Not for the next week. :'(
It was the same last year, is this what global warming is???? :-[ All year round.... the same! Beam my up Scotty!!!!
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! ::) ::)
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...
We've had a pretty dry time here in Maidstone, except today, where is it that all this rain has fallen?
I'm going to grow Rice and Water Chestnuts next year then we can guarantee a drought. ;D
im in sunny Devon but the sun is of the liquid variety
we've only had 1/2 inch so far this month >:(
We've had three inches in two days, but before that it was pretty dry.
My impression is of an East/West split.
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! :'(
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.
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 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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.
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.
;D ;D ;D ;D
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
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 :)
So nobody used watering cans at all in June ::)
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......
I lifted some of my garlic at the end of last week and the soil was dry despite some bits of drizzle during the preceding week. By now it'll be saturated, but that's no bad thing as long as we get some warm weather reasonably soon.
No sign of summer just yet I am afraid. It appears to be 'European Monsoon' season at the moment (no I am not joking this is fact, according to the daily mail at least).
I have a rain guage on the fruit plot. It was full to overflowing at 6pm last night, showing at least 35mm of rain fallen. I emptied it and it was showing 11mm this morning. So that is at least 46mm in 24 hours, if not more. For those of you who still on 'old money' thats getting on for 2 inches of rain!!!
If you think thats bad i read than some places got even more than that yesterday.
Mon, tues rained on and off all day, wed didn't stop raining morning, noon and night, nice warm day today with sunny spells, just put the washing out and yes its started spitting. :( ;D ;D ;D
The European monsoon is definitely a fact, though it's more of a statistical veriation this far north. In summer, the land heats up faster than the sea, so air coming in from the sea heats up in contact with it, rises, and is replaced by more sea air. The result is moist air, rising, and producing rain. In winter, the opposite occurs. The land is colder than the sea, so air cools, and flows outwards to replace warmer rising air over the sea. So we get slightly drier weather. Go to the tropics and you get a far stronger effect.
1 months worth of rain in the space of a day in South Wales - most of it in the back hallway of my house it appears!!! I'm dreading what my lottie is going to look like as I've just started a new job and have had hardly any time to get up there the past couple of weeks :'(
so how long do you think this European monsoon will last?
It is difficult trying to do any digging in this rain, and i didn't go up to the allotment for 10 days - mainly due to the windy weather. However, when i went up on Tuesday (sunny day at last) all my plants had grown spectacularly. Sunflowers and lillies blooming, rhubarb almost doubled in size, loads of peas and broad beand and a doubling of corn. I was gobsmacked. Ok, weeds were alos rampant, but 30 mins work took most down.
Just shows me that i hadn't been watering enough previously - no water supply on site and no sign Parish council will get a bowser for us....
im hoping the weekend will be better, i cant go in inclement weather with 2 small kiddies in tow, so unless i find some willing babysitters the lotty can carry on growing nettles and couch and dock, siiigh, hopefully the pumkins and courgettes and everything else up there likes it! but the wind took the leaves clean off my fig tree!! not a happy bunny!!!
Quote from: jordsbabe on July 10, 2008, 21:27:10
so how long do you think this European monsoon will last?
Who knows? This is Britain, remember. If the weather was predictable, what would we have to talk about?
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on July 10, 2008, 22:35:41
Quote from: jordsbabe on July 10, 2008, 21:27:10
so how long do you think this European monsoon will last?
Who knows? This is Britain, remember. If the weather was predictable, what would we have to talk about?
so true so true, also what would we have to moan about????? too hot too wet too cold lol!