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Has anybody else got a swimming pool for an allotment?   Went to check on mine this morning after all the rain...to find that the top half is completely submerged, but the raised beds that the old blokes laughed out so whole heartedly in the spring are standing high and dry, plants unbowed. True they are surrounded by a rather full moat but not washed away. 

It is very disheartening, but am very grateful that it is only my allotment that is under water as parts of the town are evacuated and flooded.

 :) same here nitiram but as you say it could be worse,I'd rather lose my lottie than my house,

take care / shades x

We are relatively unscathed here... stream through the brassica beds and a moated polytunnel... My sympathy to all the afflicted..
:(

I feared the worst yesterday when I arrived to find a small stream coming down the hill at me at the allotments!

My raised beds are also fine, the flat rows are also suprisingly ok, but I noticed when digging some potatoes up where the ground had been dug previously the soil was moist, but when I dug down in an area that has been covered by black polythene for at least six months, the surface was dry, but it was saturated a foot down! Weird......... :-\

Indeed weird. Last week when i dug down to see why I had no potatoes it was dryish on top but about a foot down completly swimming in water...weird indeed

Quote from: Deb P on June 27, 2007, 09:01:09
I feared the worst yet.......... the surface was dry, but it was saturated a foot down! Weird......... :-\

That will be what they call the "water table". There is probably an impervious substrate somewhere below ground, and the water accumulates on it. Maybe even coming from quite a long way away. Its why natural ponds and lakes have water in them(they don't have liners to keep it in). The more rain we have, the higher the water table gets, until the ground is saturated, and that is when flooding starts

Mine is on a slope... It was more of a fast flowing river.. Hopefully it will help some seeds I planted to germinate.. If it doesn't wash them away!

Yep us too, we've had standing water for nearly a week now. Lost the lot  :'(

Our lottie association has been very good though, spending a few hundred on drainage pipe/hardcore/gravel etc.