Just before the rain started we dug up a large mini mum to split and replant. A foot down the soil was powder dry, and we had had a little rain but not much (our water butt is filled from guttering on one side of a 10' summerhouse, it had only been full once since March. Trouble is this is too much rain, as now train tracks are flooded, and Skegness is cut off with flooded roads. The cost to farming will be high too.
Perfect timing for lots of rain down yer in Deb’n and Cornwall, filling reservoirs ready for much needed tourists, crops shooting up like mad, couldn’t wish for anything better, the field adjoining ours has peas growing, they’ve grown 6” this week were as before we didn’t thing they were ever going to get started. My ground is now saturated, that will last all summer, will be no need to water anything except tubs and baskets.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Perfect timing for lots of rain down yer in Deb’n and Cornwall, filling reservoirs ready for much needed tourists, crops shooting up like mad, couldn’t wish for anything better, the field adjoining ours has peas growing, they’ve grown 6” this week were as before we didn’t thing they were ever going to get started. My ground is now saturated, that will last all summer, will be no need to water anything except tubs and baskets.
I think 2 of my large pots are more or less waterlogged after 5 consecutive rainy days even though there are broken pots in the bottom and gravel mixed in
@Jason-3 Same here. Very rainy May and June, I've been quite depressed about that. But I guess for folks in London, Norfolk, etc., to get at least some rain, we have to get a lot of it. But this spring it has been all showers and drizzle and wind, really ugly weather, but not resulting in significant amount of rain.
The south and south-west always seem to be on the edge of drought given rainfall patterns and high usage of water. Down here the pollinators and fledging birds will be struggling, but the river life will be supported by the rain, mostly because there might be less river water abstraction later in the summer. The rest of June looks pretty wet.
You don't really think about rain affecting birds but on springwatch the rain has caused so many deaths. The swallows stopped feeding the young which died and there was another nest I think of chaffinches that all but one died of suspected hypothermia as they were constantly wet 😡😢
The south does @Fire not the SW, never on the verge of drought here, more than our share of rain, that’s why we are always so green in the West Country. Our water authority say we have enough water for the next 25 years if the rainfall is similar to past years. Beyond that they don’t know until we get there. As climate change will possibly bring more rain, I’m sure we’ll be ok. I feel quite sorry for the people that thought spring had arrived a couple of months ago and planted out their bedding and veg.
@edhelka. Don’t despair it’s not quite summer yet, I’m sure it will improve for you.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Looking at the water situation reports for the south west for May over the last twelve months assessments, the readings are mostly low, notably low and exceptionally low rainfall.
Looking at the water situation reports for the south west for May over the last twelve months assessments, the readings are mostly low, notably low and exceptionally low rainfall.
I didn't know that about rainwater off roads but it makes sense with fuel spills on the roads and I suppose there are small bits of tyre rubber also as they wear
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My ground is now saturated, that will last all summer, will be no need to water anything except tubs and baskets.
Our water authority say we have enough water for the next 25 years if the rainfall is similar to past years. Beyond that they don’t know until we get there.
As climate change will possibly bring more rain, I’m sure we’ll be ok.
I feel quite sorry for the people that thought spring had arrived a couple of months ago and planted out their bedding and veg.
@edhelka. Don’t despair it’s not quite summer yet, I’m sure it will improve for you.