[apidi]

Hello all. We live in Crete and have olive trees, new wine grapes just planted this year, a comedy line-up of chickens, a couple of dogs who think that gardening consists mostly of sitting on the seedlings and a good bit of space to grow vegetables. We try to be organic as possible, but since the agricultural land round here is divided into small plots (we've got seven altogether in different places) there's not much we can do when the folks next door use herbicide, fungicide and chemical nitrogen. Our big problem right now is lack of rainfall. We've been irrigating our vegetables since mid-March and every drop has to be transported in a plastic tank.

Has anybody used chamomile tea to stop damping off? I'm a long way from any Cheshunt compound.....

[jameslindsay]

Hi and welcome, you rub our noses in the fact that you are desperate for rain 

[Roxy]

Hello and welcome.  We are desperate for rain here in Derbyshire - not as bad as you obviously, but our fields are cracking up with lack of water.  No growth on the hay fields at all.  And not long ago I was grumbling about all the mud.

[JulieS]

Hello and welcome from sunny Devon 

[Hilarysmum]

Hi welcome from Brittany where we could certainly do with some sunshine.

[HappyHippy]

Hello from me in South Lanarkshire, Scotland 
After our very wet winter, we're suffering a wee bit from lack of rain (but I don't want to say that TOO loudly !  )
Look forward to hearing more from you
Karen

[Daisys Mum]

Hello and welcome from the Scottish Borders, we could do with a little bit of rain, not too much and just at nights please 

[apidi]

I have an 80 year-old neighbour who swears that it the good old days it used to rain all winter, but only at night. During the day it needs to be dry because everybody is out harvesting olives.

[Rosemary]

Hi and welcome!

[Sandy]

Hello from me in Central Scotland, I can just imagine that blue sky, sea and sun!!!!! We had hot weather here for 2 day't