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Weather deja-vu and watering

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    borgadr, and you didn't come and say hello!! Thick Woolies Dove!! I washed our duvet yesterday and the thick cotton mats from our bedroom. Thick Woolies are relegated to the loft,a couple on standby, plus cardies just in case.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Lyn said:
    Nice steady rain since about 8ish,  it will need to rain heavy for several weeks to fill the reservoirs down here,   The tourists will come down in their millions all using water to bath or two showers a day.
    We have had a leak just along by us,  been like it for 6 months,  in the end I put it on the open Facebook page,  then sent them a private message,  then followed it up,  I’m not one to mince words,  so I had a phone call today she said ‘I can tell you’re concerned.😀 Does it affect your supply?  We will get to it very soon’. 
    We’ll see. 

    The leak was fixed today. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    Feeling greedy, I'm hoping for a little more rain overnight or tomorrow morning because I think that's going to be all for the next week or so... lots more warm sunshine ahead.  

    The plants love the rain so much more than the hose. Everything seems to have put on a sudden growth spurt since yesterday, and there's loads more flying insects zipping around this evening. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Nearly as good as the smell of rain after a dry spell is the word to describe it petrichor.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • We had a lot of rain the night before and it's raining just now. I found yesterday eveing around 60l in the greenhouse butts (not 35 as I said in the other thread, because I had only looked into one butt). That means we had 20l per sqm the night before. It will be raining for the next 4 hours and some heavy rain in between. I need to keep an eye on the butts in case they spill over and I can take water out into the next butts.
    The plants love rain. Everything looks so fresh.

    I my garden.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Am I reading you correctly @Simone_in_Wiltshire … 20 litres per sq metre?  In how long? 🚣‍♀️

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





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    If my sums are right, 20 litres per sq metre would be a depth of 20mm which is 2cm or a bit less than an inch. For us that would be about half the monthly long-term average which is a lot to fall in a few hours but not implausible if there was a torrential storm. It's only about two big watering cans full. A single tree or shrub would soon slurp up that much.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It seems a lot … but then we’re in the dry east 🌵 

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





  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    edited June 2023
    @Dovefromabove we had another nice rain this morning. Since Sunday at 8 PM my 3sqm greenhouse has collected 150l water. That’s amazing and we didn’t have heavy rain or flood rain. 

    Made just picture: 2x 75l and I took out 40l and 15l into the smaller ones 42l and 15l?


    I my garden.

  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    It's been absolutely hammering it down here in the Midlands today (also Sunday night) and I am overjoyed. I was out getting drenched filling up my watering cans to make more room in the butts 😄. However, a lot of my plants have been flattened, which is a bit annoying, I'm never happy!!
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