We’ve got a 30% chance next Thursday. thankfully the lovely man from the water board came yesterday and turned our pump on, he said I should have told them before I had no water from the hose pipe and just tiddling out of the taps, he said I can now hose the garden and freshen everything up, no signs of water shortage here, just adds up on my water rate bill.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Dennis Howell was the minister for drought, l think l am right in saying that soon after he was appointed, there was so much rain, they changed it to minister for flood ! We have had 10.2 mm here (Glos) since this afternoon. Best thing is that it is steady rain, not torrential .
We have had no proper rain and baking temps in the 30s for 2 weeks. It seems normal for summer and our established plants are coping fine. In June we had rain that wasn't expected and this month we're not getting rain that is expected.
Last December a 15 month drought ended. We'd had 20.5mm all year since mid January. The only plants we lost were some inherited, badly positioned, boring dwarf conifers and a newly planted hamamelis of mine which I didn't rescue fast enough.
The soil where we wanted to make new beds in this new, to us, garden was rock hard and forks and spades just bounced so all the the treasures I brought from our last garden stayed in pots, as did all the new stuff I bought in anticipation. Then we had 2 years' worth of rain in 6 months so couldn't work the soil and just when it became good to go, OH had to go away for 3 weeks..........
When it is workable again it will get masses of well-rotted manure and a seep hose to help treasures get through the vagaries of changing climates. Don't care about the grass going brown cos all sorts of wild flowers pop up and get covered in all sorts of pollinators hunting nectar. Great for the swallows and bats.
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thankfully the lovely man from the water board came yesterday and turned our pump on, he said I should have told them before I had no water from the hose pipe and just tiddling out of the taps, he said I can now hose the garden and freshen everything up, no signs of water shortage here, just adds up on my water rate bill.
26% chance on Monday, 35% chance on Thursday. ( sprinkler running as we speak )
Last December a 15 month drought ended. We'd had 20.5mm all year since mid January. The only plants we lost were some inherited, badly positioned, boring dwarf conifers and a newly planted hamamelis of mine which I didn't rescue fast enough.
The soil where we wanted to make new beds in this new, to us, garden was rock hard and forks and spades just bounced so all the the treasures I brought from our last garden stayed in pots, as did all the new stuff I bought in anticipation. Then we had 2 years' worth of rain in 6 months so couldn't work the soil and just when it became good to go, OH had to go away for 3 weeks..........
When it is workable again it will get masses of well-rotted manure and a seep hose to help treasures get through the vagaries of changing climates. Don't care about the grass going brown cos all sorts of wild flowers pop up and get covered in all sorts of pollinators hunting nectar. Great for the swallows and bats.