In the spirit of there's always someone worse off than you ( I've never been comfortable with that philosophy. Why should that make me feel better?) I've decided to spare a thought for the neat and tidy gardener. If I'm feeling overwhelmed by the rampant rain - induced growth, how bad must they feel? Having a stroll down the garden, it feels a bit like a scene from Land of the Giants. Most perennials are at least twice their normal height. I wonder if farmers crops are having similar growth or are they missing the sun? I haven't been out near a field so far this year so have no idea.
I wonder if farmers crops are having similar growth or are they missing the sun? I haven't been out near a field so far this year so have no idea.
The grass is growing like topsy (who was topsy?) so there should be plenty of hay for this winter. The grain crops around here are looking quite short - like garden veg, I suppose, they are late. It'll be OK if we don't get an early autumn but if the rain sets in in August, it could be a problem. There's not much in the way of other food crops grown in the immediate vicinity here so I can't say about those.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I spoke to a farmer on Monday who seemed pleased with the progress of her maize. 'Knee high by the 4th of July' is the rule they work to and it was about waist high. Interestingly they've had to upgrade their drying system for grain in the last few years because of the wet summers we're consistently having. They now have to use LPG fired heaters instead of the previous air system and this has added to the costs of production. She also told me about the amount of crops lost to flooding now. They won't put in flood prevention because it just passes the problem on downstream. The perils of modern farming.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@raisingirl Topsy was a child character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ... she was being taught about the Bible and was told that 'God had made her' ... her reply was something along the lines of " ... I s'pect I just growed. Don't think nobody made me."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Farmers usually quite careful about drainage. AIUI they don't pass it on to land owned by others. I think it is the case that you need to take them to court if they do send the flood your way to get them to rectify it.
That happened to a farmer and former colleague. They didn't have the money to go to court and the guy who caused the previously unheard of flooding (3rd generation owned land got flooded so they'd know) was a very wealthy man. He basically told them he had more money than them so good luck trying to stop me. They contacted national rail who obviously own the West Coast mainline whose footings were now in a lot of water. I do believe it got sorted with the illegal drainage removed and other costs to rectify got charged to the guilty landowner. And now the landowners daughter who lived at the farm causing the issues isn't well received locally. Farmers tend to look out for each other round their neck of the woods.
I'm getting Anne Summers ads. The lady modelling the 'clothes ' is a really peculiar shape. I wonder where she stores her internal organs - there's plenty of room in her bosom, I suppose.
For years and years I have longed for the day when nations disappear. No borders, no nationalities. No passports. Freedom to live wherever you want. There would be one helluva game of musical chairs for a few years and then, I think, it would all settle down. It would get rid of most wars for a start.
Wow!! pansyface your the first person I've come across that thinks like me. People think I'm peculiar. I always respond when people say "Where you from" Planet Earth I say, what about you?
I hate the nationalist fervor displayed by any countries citizens. Brexit to me was the equivalent of returning to the dark ages I had visons of pre-England and the kingdoms that existed before England came in to being when Brexit happened. Such a thing was tried recently in Spain with the Catalan region.
Why cant we, at least those with a reasonable education use that education to understand that its one planet not one country that counts.
Thanks pansyface for reminding me that there are still people like you out there that see the world for what it is and not the petty nationalism exhibited by those that know better, but choose the path of hate for those not like them.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Well said @pansyface. I have long felt that Nationalism is a small-minded, backwards place to keep a mind-set. My neighbour asked about Northern Ireland and Brexit fall-out when I saw her the other day cos she didn't understand.............
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)."
I'm getting Anne Summers ads. The lady modelling the 'clothes ' is a really peculiar shape. I wonder where she stores her internal organs - there's plenty of room in her bosom, I suppose.
Sounds terrible. Where does one find such adverts? So I know to avoid them
Speaking of which though; My wife has been using my Youtube account rather than just creating her own. Now my recommendations are full of yoga videos featuring young ladies in tight clothes doing impossible contortions. That and Peppa bloody Pig.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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If I'm feeling overwhelmed by the rampant rain - induced growth, how bad must they feel?
Having a stroll down the garden, it feels a bit like a scene from Land of the Giants. Most perennials are at least twice their normal height.
I wonder if farmers crops are having similar growth or are they missing the sun? I haven't been out near a field so far this year so have no idea.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That happened to a farmer and former colleague. They didn't have the money to go to court and the guy who caused the previously unheard of flooding (3rd generation owned land got flooded so they'd know) was a very wealthy man. He basically told them he had more money than them so good luck trying to stop me. They contacted national rail who obviously own the West Coast mainline whose footings were now in a lot of water. I do believe it got sorted with the illegal drainage removed and other costs to rectify got charged to the guilty landowner. And now the landowners daughter who lived at the farm causing the issues isn't well received locally. Farmers tend to look out for each other round their neck of the woods.
Wow!! pansyface your the first person I've come across that thinks like me. People think I'm peculiar. I always respond when people say "Where you from" Planet Earth I say, what about you?
I hate the nationalist fervor displayed by any countries citizens.
Brexit to me was the equivalent of returning to the dark ages I had visons of pre-England and the kingdoms that existed before England came in to being when Brexit happened. Such a thing was tried recently in Spain with the Catalan region.
Why cant we, at least those with a reasonable education use that education to understand that its one planet not one country that counts.
Thanks pansyface for reminding me that there are still people like you out there that see the world for what it is and not the petty nationalism exhibited by those that know better, but choose the path of hate for those not like them.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.