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Title: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Sudanpan on July 03, 2012, 02:26:34 pm
I haven't been able to inspect my beehives for a couple of weeks now - either too windy or just too wet


The grass in the field that we are growing for hay spends most of the time lying down as it is so heavy with all the rain.


The slugs are busy chomping through our squash, courgettes, beans and salads, plus the cauliflower, carrot and parsnip seedlings - slug numbers have exploded because of the mild damp conditions


Very bored of summer so far  >:(
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: deepinthewoods on July 03, 2012, 02:30:22 pm
i agree, its crap. >:(
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: tizaala on July 03, 2012, 02:45:41 pm
Gabi's dad rang from Germany this morning complaining that for the last couple of weeks the temperature has been between 30-37 deg C during the day and mid 20's at night, too hot and uncomfortable for him,  >:( :-\ :'(
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Bionic on July 03, 2012, 06:02:19 pm
Doug,
Is that supposed to make us feel better or worse?  ;D
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: VSS on July 03, 2012, 06:41:59 pm
We have just heard that another show we were supposed to be going to has been cancelled. That's two so far :(
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: kaz on July 03, 2012, 07:09:25 pm
They won't cancel the Royal Welsh even though you don't show there VSS.They don't mind if you wade in mud there.
I'm sick to death of it. Have loads of jobs to do outside, but not the weather to do it. Roll on summer :fc:
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Brijjy on July 03, 2012, 07:22:46 pm
They definitely won't cancel the Royal Welsh and if this weather carries on it'll be a good test if the drainage and improvements to the main ring have worked. In other wet years, competitors have been knee deep in mud. Usually the weather doesn't get me down but this constant wet, cold, miserable crappy weather is depressing. The only things growing rampantly are the poxy weeds.
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Beewyched on July 03, 2012, 08:44:27 pm
I agree ...
It's sooo depressing, totally fed-up of the cold, wet & mud everywhere  :gloomy:
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: MAK on July 03, 2012, 09:43:15 pm
We are a lot further south than most of you but are also experiencing different weather. We have had more rain than usual so we still have green grass and have had 3 lots of hay gathered around us. It's not as hot as last year so I am spending less time watering the veg plot and can get some heavy work done rather than wilting like the veg did last year.
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Beewyched on July 03, 2012, 09:55:42 pm
But I actually ENJOY watering the veg patch, my flowers, the dogs, the pigs ...  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: holz306 on July 03, 2012, 10:50:24 pm
we've had it really dry over the last 6 weeks or so, so i'm actually glad for a bit of rain over the last week - and yes, this is coming from the north/west coast of scotland, normally the wettest part of the country, but we've actually been hoping for rain as my hay crop hasn't been growing, and obviously we're not set up to have to water the fields!!  :eyelashes:
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Lesley Silvester on July 03, 2012, 10:53:24 pm
According to radio two news this morning, June was officially the wettest since before records began.   ::)  Wow!  Was it really?  Who would have thought it?  :innocent:
 
Thee was also someone on from Trent Water who said they are loving it.  the reservoirs are almost full again after a long time of being very low.  It's an ill wind....
 
I'm sick of the wind, ill or otherwise, as well.  My goats desperately needs mucking out but I can't leave them outside long enough and I have nowhere to put them under cover.  Do you think they'd share a golf umbrella?  ;D
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: PetiteGalette on July 03, 2012, 11:13:26 pm
Here in Brittany we're on the outskirts of the UK weather. We've now abandoned any idea of taking a hay crop again this year - because it is too wet and the farmers that cut 2 weeks ago have their grass rotting on the soil. We haven't had a hay crop for the last 3 years because of drought conditions and the grass/clover had only grown 6 inches before flowering...........It seems that you just can't win!
As regards the veggie plot? Well, forget it! Anything that needs the sun has just sat there, mournful............ Although netted, I've lost 50% of my cabbages/brocolli/sprouts to wind and slimy s*ds that devour them (oh yes, and the mice!)
The peas/ broad beans plants have just given up the ghost; the runner beans are heading down to Australia and the onions have now decided to call it a day.
Of course, the tayberries, should now be ready but, like last year............ it's raining.......... and they will all go mouldy..........
But hey! it'll be a good year for blackberries................................ (No apples to go with them as the strong cold winds in April destroyed the ample blossom on the trees! No cider this year, either as the cider trees are bare!)
Oh yes, and the blight has hit all our neighbours' potato crops and decimated their outdoor tomatoes.........
Depressed? Am I depressed..........................???
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Small Farmer on July 04, 2012, 12:07:17 am
We're still in drought condition here, at least there's still a hosepipe ban!  You gotta laugh sometimes
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Beewyched on July 04, 2012, 09:37:01 pm
Quote from: Small Farmer on July 04, 2012, 12:07:17 am
We're still in drought condition here, at least there's still a hosepipe ban!  You gotta laugh sometimes
WHAT  :o  I'm guessing you ARE getting some of this rain - or are you all too naughty down your way SF ;) ;D
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: lachlanandmarcus on July 04, 2012, 10:12:03 pm
I am holding my nerve re our hay crop - we didnt do it til mid Aug last year due to weather/OHs work schedule and it was great stuff so hoping we will still get ours. Im less worried about it being rich, our Shetland sheep love it whenever its made and it fills their tummies.
I have probably 25-30 bales of last years if it all goes pear shaped to help but would still have to buy in.
But it is becoming depressing, esp up here where the summer is short anyway so we do need it to be nice to carry us through the long long dark winter....
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Small Farmer on July 04, 2012, 11:56:07 pm
Quote from: Beewyched on July 04, 2012, 09:37:01 pm
Quote from: Small Farmer on July 04, 2012, 12:07:17 am
We're still in drought condition here, at least there's still a hosepipe ban!  You gotta laugh sometimes
WHAT  :o  I'm guessing you ARE getting some of this rain - or are you all too naughty down your way SF ;) ;D
We've had plenty of rain.  Our rainwater tanks are full and the grass is growing way faster than the sheep can eat it.  But Veolia gets its water from underground aquifers which don't fill as well in summer as winter - when there was sod-all rain. 
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: kumquat on July 05, 2012, 10:32:58 am
Just read this on British farming forum....amazing... :o :o (though a photo to back it up would have been good)


A freind of mine only has 3 sheep all wenslydale cross and full of wool, set of to clip them at the weekend and one had an oak tree growing out of its back. Granted it had only just germinated and only had two leaves but it had made a big sore on its back and the acorn shell was still matted into the wool. I know its been wet but i have never heard of anything like this before, he was so upset at the mess the poor sheep was in he didnt get any photos but it takes some beliving.
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Victorian Farmer on July 05, 2012, 11:07:41 am
Thursday will bring the risk of more cloudbursts, but there should also be some brighter spells, and in the sunshine temperatures will rise rapidly, perhaps reaching a very humid 24C (75F) in one or two places. On Friday the weather will take a turn for the worse across much of Britain, but particularly in northern and western regions where heavy outbreaks of rain will develop. The worst of the wet weather looks set to be in the north where there could be further flooding, but parts of the south look like missing most of the rain. Lots of festivals and outdoor events are taking place at this time of year, its not good and not getting eney better we have 7 weeks left in scotland then all dawn hill.
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: kitchen cottage on July 10, 2012, 10:00:09 pm
Totally fed up.  3 inches of rain standing.  The heavens opened and the land is a swimming pool.  The sheep shelter under trees, but I'm going to have to make them a shelter.  Miserable 'orrible weather  :(
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: Bramblecot on July 11, 2012, 06:08:10 pm
Water table now so high we have springs popping out of the hillside  :o - but at least we are on the hill and not in the valley where our friend has just moved his cabinet making workshop into an old barn - beside a watermill - you can guess :( :( - 4 ft deep in water.  He was so pleased to be restoring the mill, it puts our problems into perspective.  At least the hay will grow again, it is already 6 inches high, 3 weeks after cutting.
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: tizaala on July 11, 2012, 06:50:25 pm
now this is WET

blatently stolen off  karen (HH)
Title: Re: Sick of this bl**dy weather
Post by: HappyHippy on July 11, 2012, 07:04:45 pm
 ;D ;D ;D