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WATER WATER EVERYWHERE.....

purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
in Fruit & veg
But not a drop to drink!
This is a first for me. Went out to get some rain water for the house plants and found this! Never happened before, but it did get down to -5 last night.

I do have more than one,  but they are all the same. 

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  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    Same here but I'm only a bit south of you. I don't remember more than a inch or two of ice forming in the water butts the last few years. I went to check on my seeds in the shed and the pots are frozen solid.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yep. Solid here too. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Same here. I don't think it's just to do with the low overnight temperatures. It's at least partly because it's not getting much (if any) above freezing in the daytime so the ice doesn't melt, and the next night more of the water freezes until the whole lot is a big block of ice.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    We're the same here, I checked this morning. The frozen discs from the birdpath I tipped out over the last few days haven't thawed at all. It was -6.9 at 8.30 am, I think the coldest it's ever been here.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    They have just said it will be -7 tonight!
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    We woke to -12.5C yesterday .... it was a balmy -10.5C this morning!

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    🥶
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