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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    What we need here is any reasonable amount of rain at all. Run-off doesn't seem to be an issue on our soil but it needs more than the odd millimetre or two to do any good. At the moment there's a low-ish probability in the forecast for some at the weekend but it doesn't look like it'll be much.

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Is it a good idea to loosen the soil or does the dry crust on the top help to stop evaporation lower down?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Here’s a bit of silliness I just read and now you’re all going to try it. I did.

    Sitting down raise your right leg off the floor and move your foot in clockwise circles.

    Now, with your right hand draw the number 6 in the air. As you do so your foot will make anti-clockwise circles.

    Left foot, left hand produces the same results but right foot, left hand and left foot, right hand doesn’t.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Weird😯
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    edited August 2022
    Our soil is normally very free draining and easy to dig.  Prior to the most recent rain it would have needed a pneumatic drill to get through it.  As it does have a bit of a slope water just ran off.
    Severn Trent haven't imposed a hosepipe ban in our area yet.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    @B3 in veg gardening the old books talk about hoeing regularly to keep a  'dust mulch "  a dry fine layer on top that weeds won't grow in but also  will protect soil lower down, and let water in either when you irrigate or when it rains. 
    AB Still learning

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Neither has Wessex Water, although the South West is now officially in drought.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That makes sense to me @Allotment Boy
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Some time ago I sent a video clip to my favourite Youtube channel, Ashley Neal's Driving Education. It shows a ridiculous number of bad drivers merging at a Motorway slip road, so I submitted it for use in one of his Driving Fails compilations, but yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to see it in one of his Nice Driving videos instead!
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I wish I had dashcam when I was following a car down the on-slip, fortunately keeping well back as I always do.  Instead of building up speed, the driver stopped at the bottom of the ramp to look for traffic coming!
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