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Just how wet is your Garden?

GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
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We have just had yet another deluge of rain. I can never remember it being this wet in my life. How is your garden doing? Do you have concerns that some plants won't cope?
I am finding it difficult to gauge as it is the first Autumn with a new garden and it is very wet.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Mine is horribly wet . Have had to move some pots under cover as they are not draining quickly enough . I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas. 
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I haven’t done anything in my garden for at least two weeks as it’s been too wet to walk on the lawn or work in the borders, and that’s with sandy free draining soil! For the first time this year I didn’t put my garden waste bin out for collection today as it’s empty. 🌧️🦆
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    Squelchy grass!!
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
     Found it hard to make a comparison. No leaves to clear here unlike my old garden.
    All the Autumn jobs I would normally do I've had a rest from, other than some difficult digging some weeks back. I expect for many gardeners many of the jobs they would normally do in the Autumn never actually happened?

    @Plantminded My garden waste bin won't go out either. I always think of the times when I would welcome an extra one!
    When I worked there were a few weeks at this time of year when they didn't collect garden waste. It was assumed no one gardened a problem for me.
    I think most people pay extra for garden bins now. Years ago you purchased special plastic bin bags that were always over filled with twigs sticking out. A nightmare!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @pansyface  Boggy too!
    Spoke to a landscaper working nearby. He had never known it so wet in the whole of his career. He has another garden lined up but thinks it may have to wait until early March.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I need to recover a shed roof on my Allotment- Fat chance.
    No digging done at all, can't even prune the Bramley apple   leaves are still green. 
    AB Still learning

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Drowning


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited December 2023
    Like @Plantminded , I'm finding the ground is wetter than normal at this time of year, but not exactly boggy because the soil is sandy. Wet enough that I don't really want to be walking on the lawn too much though. It could do with a trim when we get a dry (or drier) spell. Our garden waste collections end at the end of November and don't start again until March - obviously whoever decided on that isn't a gardener and doesn't know how much of the clearing goes on in winter - weather permitting of course! Most of mine goes in my own compost but nevertheless, by March the green bin will be full of stuff that I can't or would rather not compost at home.

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • NormandyLizNormandyLiz Posts: 788
    Soggy but remarkably most places aren't too bad, not because of lack of rain but because we're on a slope. The run off collection at the bottom of the next door field has been a couple of metres deep. No plants lost so far, touch wood... But like others the lawn is stupidly long and there isn't much I can do about it, it's too wet.

    That's bonkers about your green waste collection, @JennyJ!
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