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Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: chairmanphil on April 03, 2012, 09:03:35 am
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how about you? we need some in Oxfordshire the ground is cracking like a hot August.
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Several inches of sleet and snow, blowing a gale, and absolutely freezing. Otherwise fine!
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Several inches of sleet and snow, blowing a gale, and absolutely freezing. Otherwise fine!
wow, still summer here. but not for long b the sounds of it!
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Surprisingly no rain in Carmarthenshire either. We could do with a bit.
Sally
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hang on a minute, there are clouds coming on the horizon from the north! ;D
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Started as mizzle & drizzle this morning but is now steady 'soft' rain which thankfully gives it time to soak into the ground instead of a flood that just runs off. ideal for me as sowed & rolled the paddocks at the weekend so if it stays mild they should soon be looking green. Now 10 degrees.
Mandy :pig:
A wet North Yorkshire :thumbsup:
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horizontal snow here!
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still nothing but cloudy now.
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We are desperate for rain too. After what seems weeks of blue sky since the big freeze and snow we have clouds today. My water containers are empty and I hate paying for water to use on the garden - I'm walking back and forward to the trickle of a stream! given the crazy weather i bet we have flooding next week.
ooops ( in the Limousin France)
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Our ground was very dry so the snow will help a bit, the grass was coming on fine then 5 days of cold wind and its back to winter. Lucky for me I had not started work in the pollytunnel. I still have winter cabbage and lettuce but as yet no seeds growing.
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It has been pouring of rain for most of the day in Ceredigion,but the sun has now come out again.
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rain here in cornwall, hope it lasts for a while, all my beds are dust baths!
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IT IS RAINING! first time in nearly 4 weeks here! sooo glad about it as all my water butts were almost dry!
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Only a couple of light showers here in Powys. No proper rain yet.
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Heavy showers here. Good for my garden, not so good for me trudging around ::)
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still raining! oh yes!
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Hail here ::)
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Blizzards onite, rain & sleet this am, aforementioned seeded paddocks now flooded >:( seed floating!!
very cold suppose should be glad eveything has had a good dowsing. Daffs & spring pots looking bedraggled!
mandy :pig:
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Snowing since 5am here in Mid Wales and a bitter wind.
Well I suppose it will melt and we did need some water.
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well we have had very little rain TBH, well under an inch it seems to be all around us but not dropping here!
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Well they forecasted storms and heavy rain for today (Limousin France) BUT still no rain and a drying wind in the sun. Had to water the garden again and the ducks water looks terrible.
can anyone send a link that shows me how to do a rain dance.
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could do with the same here Mak, it rained hard and we got about a inch but the ground is still very dry and we need alot more!
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Now we have a forecast of dry with sun until a risk of storms ( risque d'orages ;D ) on Wednesday. Same as last weeks forecast that was wrong.
Fortunately I can get water from a stream still as the spring is just above us. I have taken to try and water a bit of the dust bowl left by our last pigs in the hope that something will grow for the pigs that arrive in a few weeks.Farmers are delivering water to their cattle down the road here - I would rather see the village turn out to herd the cattle into the lake from where theyare taking water. That would be a site as the old lady on a crutch is normally the supervisor when the move cattle from field to field past our door.
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been raining on and off now for 2 days and tomorrow is a washout or so they say. :thumbsup:
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Thanks for that ChairmanPhil - grass at our back door is dead hanging on in the dust - the stream is just a trickle and I am fed up of carrying watercans.
On the plus side i am collecting loads of dry fire wood and T shirts don't take much washing or drying in the sun.
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Thanks for that ChairmanPhil - grass at our back door is dead hanging on in the dust - the stream is just a trickle and I am fed up of carrying watercans.
On the plus side i am collecting loads of dry fire wood and T shirts don't take much washing or drying in the sun.
now we have near flood conditions. raining hard as i type and going to rain all week or so they say!
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Hope you get trench foot ! ;D
just joking!
overcast but no rain. a neighbour tells me that it rained 15 km away - wow wee !
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Hope you get trench foot ! ;D
just joking!
overcast but no rain. a neighbour tells me that it rained 15 km away - wow wee !
had trench foot at a festival once.........horrible! hope you get a drink soon MAK, good luck with the dance! :D
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been pouring with rain all day. we have puddles in the lanes and all the water butts are full and the garden happy
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Yes - we had some - a few showers ! So pleased until I tried to dig up a leek for dinner - still can't get a spade in the ground and dust fell off the roots when I hit it. Think we need a few days worth.
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we had a cloud burst or something like that cuz we had 1 1/2 inches last night! puddles and wet ground everywhere! excellent!!
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We have had sleet off and on today, its rather cold.
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We have had sleet off and on today, its rather cold.
we just had a mad storm pass over, plenty of the wet stuff too!
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so since i started this thread it has only stopped raining for about 10 minutes! it looks like it might be floods now. oh it would be funny if it wasn't so worrying! couldn't be better for the garden though. everything has shot up but that means the weeds have too!
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Totally torrential here since lunchtime. Forecast to continue for next 2 days.
Hoping the bags of potatoes don't flood :-\
Wishing we'd bought the larger water butt now !
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This year we seem so far to have got the timing about right for spraying and re-seeding the pasture. I even got round with the slitter so the rain that's now falling should be going properly into the ground. Last year was the opposite: we had two fields re-seeded in April only to have two and a half months with no rain and they stayed brown.
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Well we have had rain these last few days but I am not sure what was hitting our roof at 04:00 this morning but it was loud - We converted our loft into a bedroom with Velux windows - sure we can see the stars but the "rain" was arf loud on the metal flashing around the 3 windows - been up since 4:30 so I my get 2 breakfasts today thanks to the rain.
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we have sun today! looks like the grass has grown 6" in the last few days. the new apple trees look very happy for a drink. all in all a good amount of rain and well happy!
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Its going to be like this till the end off april. And a bad week end is forcast not good need to move stock.
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Its going to be like this till the end off april. And a bad week end is forcast not good need to move stock.
think you may be right, no sun now pouring with rain now!
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been waiting all day for it to stop long enough to start work. here come the rain again!
never easy eh!
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It has been like this for four days here,tired of it,the place is a quagmire! :-\
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we have had inches of rain over the last few days but now we have very strong winds whipping around. i have a mate in Chamonix and he has 120kph winds tonight.
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Fed up = gales and rain again this morning. I just want to get outside for longer than the 5 min bouts to collect Logs, feed the ducks and chickens and collect the eggs.
" pigs arrive today so 6 inches of mud due by tomorrow afternoon !
More decorating of the spare room I suppose. >:(
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all about to start again here Mak had a nice day today but back to gales and rain tomorrow!
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More storms with hail ! we are not on mains drains so the water table has risen and our grey water has risen with it,
Looks like we will have a day of sun on Thursday followed by thunder storms
this time last year we were sunburnt !!!
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More storms with hail ! we are not on mains drains so the water table has risen and our grey water has risen with it,
Looks like we will have a day of sun on Thursday followed by thunder storms
this time last year we were sunburnt !!!
yeah man, same as!
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things have calmed down here, but the thames is still very high and the ground round here is sodden! on the bright side, weeds come up with ease! more rain coming by the looks of it!
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The OH is taking photos of cloud formations for an online competioton. The problem is that she gets soaked when going out to take the photos.
Cold tody with more hail - then the sun popped out at 6ish - loveley evening and the hikens want to stay out..