Very hot and very dry summers will be most hard on trees. In west Sussex mature trees are looking ok. Some more years without significant rainfall in the south will certainly lead to widespread tree loss: carbon and canopy.
The ground looks to be pretty compacted too my allotment plot has cracks in the soil but only where I have walked on it.
I have never walked in my bed, and it looks like he has shown. Clay soil moves. Even my proper put in place greenhouse starts to move slightly down on one end. Our soil is dry at least 1 meter but I’m sure it’s underestimated and it’s at least 4 meters if not more. It’s the groundwater that is missing.
Team colleagues in the Philippines said during the last meeting that their rain season has started. I asked them to send us 5 TB rain to my OneDrive, but it seems to gone lost on the way. 🤨
We are on clay, the beds have been "improved", a couple dug out and soil completely replaced. Our lawns get huge cracks every year. Was rather annoyed, talking to folk without water meters,who water their lawns.... won't say anymore! We're putting the plug in the bath while showering. We do that every summer. Great fun (not!!) Scooping it out. We have a bungalow,and the bathroom is in the middle!!
@Nanny Beach why don't you stand in a large bowl when showering? Easier to collect the water.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I did a year in industry mixed in but it was the mid to late 00's, I think I started in 2005.
I ♥ my garden.
I ♥ my garden.
concave beds