We had drought last year form mid April and heatwave all thru May. Things get very crispy very quickly if you don't water them. We've had an exceptionally long wet winter here thru until mid march but now we're getting warmer and it's been windy I have to water beds before I can weed some beds as the surface is like concrete.
Go with the flow, water as needed. It's cheaper than buying new plants..
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Yes it has definitely been a dry spell. I've been giving things a good water ,especially during this warmer period. Overseeded lawn a week or so gone thinking we'd have some rain, but there's only been the odd trickle a couple of night.
Absolutely poured down here for several hours after lunch. Very thankful of it because the garden was really drying out, I was rotavating dried up chunks of clay last week and starting to wonder if I was ever going to get seed beds sorted out.
I checked on the weather radar when it started, we were right in the middle of one of just two storm cells at the time in the whole of England, the other was just West of London. Towards the end a few others were brewing up, now there seems to be a good band of rain across East Anglia.
Link to the site I use, very handy when gardening to know when rain is about:
No rain expected here till a dribble on Friday morning. If we're lucky, we'll get the storm they're predicting later that evening and have a decent bit of rain.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We have been watering for several weeks here SE UK, our 6 water butts were originally full,I think we had the April showers earlier in the year. I was also told by someone scientificy minded that the clear blue skies were down to both lack or aircraft and road vehicles. I think people forget, we have citrus in one greenhouse and pretty muich every year its so hot by March, we are removing them in the day, and then its bubble wrap and heater at night.
I've had no rain for 3 weeks. Water butts are already empty as have had to fill up the garden pond and water my pots and containers. I've also just lost a bamboo in a large container because I wasn't paying much attention to it being so early in the Spring and the container is as dry as a bone. Normally I wouldn't have to water it until the end of May/June. I've just been on to the BBC Weather and its long-range forecast for the next two weeks shows no rain up to 25th April. What happened to the April showers?
Is it me or is anybody thinking the lack of aircraft movements is resulting in less cloud seeding caused by pollution? The amount of blue clear sky in April seems unprecedented. Have we any weather experts out there who can offer some comment.
I do remember after 9/11 when no planes flew in America for 3 days that they reckoned the average daytime temperature rose by around 1.7C. Just wondering if the lack of flights is having an impact on the weather again.
Good old USA ... the paranoia capital and home of conspiracy theories ... if planes not flying was the cause of fine weather one wonders how it ever rained in the millennia before the Wright brothers started flitting back and forth. 🌧 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My Mum was adamant that really wet or dry weather was the result of the conflict between the USA and USSR and they were stealing each others rain. Apparently The USA wanted the Russian wheat crops to fail and vice versa and we got caught in the middle.
It doesn't make sense (she often didn't) but may be understandable for those of a certain age who remember the Cold War.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
My Mum was adamant that really wet or dry weather was the result of the conflict between the USA and USSR and they were stealing each others rain. Apparently The USA wanted the Russian wheat crops to fail and vice versa and we got caught in the middle.
It doesn't make sense (she often didn't) but may be understandable for those of a certain age who remember the Cold War.
Ah @moiz.ak she will have read something about 'cloud seeding' in the D***y M****r along with an editorial about how it could be used and then carried on along her own meandering way. As I am sure many people have over the years.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
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Go with the flow, water as needed. It's cheaper than buying new plants..
I checked on the weather radar when it started, we were right in the middle of one of just two storm cells at the time in the whole of England, the other was just West of London. Towards the end a few others were brewing up, now there seems to be a good band of rain across East Anglia.
Link to the site I use, very handy when gardening to know when rain is about:
https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar
if planes not flying was the cause of fine weather one wonders how it ever rained in the millennia before the Wright brothers started flitting back and forth. 🌧 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It doesn't make sense (she often didn't) but may be understandable for those of a certain age who remember the Cold War.
Maybe your mum wasn't so wrong!