They forecast 50 - 60mm of rain for this part of the world for yesterday - they probably got it right this time - about 20 hrs of constant rain - most of it heavy. Soil is now the colour soil should be and the lawn is catching up fast. Hope the wind dies down soon - don't need that undoing all the good work!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Honestly. there you all are rejoicing at the arrival of the missing rain but still none in the NE although it's been cloudy for days, we've had to resort to watering with the sprinkler as plants are drooping. The irony is it's Sunderland's wonderful air show this weekend and rain is forcast for tomorrow!
My greenhouse on the allotment has a drip feed connected to the water butt so as long as it rains enough to fill the greenhouse water butt I won't have to go out in the rain to water the tomatoes, hurray for simple technology. I will have to go up in the next few days to check the brassicas for cabbage caterpillars and eggs though darn I should have shelled out for some scaffold netting and canes.
Our local forecaster in NI announced last night that we might get a bright but cool day today (correct) but that after that the weather and temperatures were going to be autumnal for the next week at least, rain and cold
I'm still holding out for an Indian summer, its got to be summer sometime surely
It has just started raining here in the middle of The Netherlands. Not much yet though.
But we're also having a full-blown gale here with gusts of up to 100 km per hour. I dread to think what that is doing to my beanstalks and rthe rest of the garden at the moment.
Really scary! I absolutely hate storms! And I just heard the sirens of the fire brigade, shudder. I wonder where they were going, brr.
And I think the worst is still to come in the next few hours. Should start to ease by 19.00 or so.
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They forecast 50 - 60mm of rain for this part of the world for yesterday - they probably got it right this time - about 20 hrs of constant rain - most of it heavy. Soil is now the colour soil should be and the lawn is catching up fast. Hope the wind dies down soon - don't need that undoing all the good work!
Pond now full to the brim and verging on overflowing - frogs looking somewhat bemused
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Rained very heavy & it lasted all day in London yesterday
but we have respite at the moment the sun is out but clouds moving in again slowly
Happy Gardening
My greenhouse on the allotment has a drip feed connected to the water butt so as long as it rains enough to fill the greenhouse water butt I won't have to go out in the rain to water the tomatoes, hurray for simple technology. I will have to go up in the next few days to check the brassicas for cabbage caterpillars and eggs though darn I should have shelled out for some scaffold netting and canes.
Our local forecaster in NI announced last night that we might get a bright but cool day today (correct) but that after that the weather and temperatures were going to be autumnal for the next week at least, rain and cold
I'm still holding out for an Indian summer, its got to be summer sometime surely
We had summer this month 34 degrees too hot for me and my plants this blip if just fine.
It has just started raining here in the middle of The Netherlands. Not much yet though.
But we're also having a full-blown gale here with gusts of up to 100 km per hour. I dread to think what that is doing to my beanstalks and rthe rest of the garden at the moment.
Really scary! I absolutely hate storms! And I just heard the sirens of the fire brigade, shudder. I wonder where they were going, brr.
And I think the worst is still to come in the next few hours. Should start to ease by 19.00 or so.
It's a bit blustery in the middle of England too but sunny around around 18c.
I hope it's not as bad as what we've got here at the moment.
According to the official weather office it's the strongest storm we've had here in summer since records started in 1901.
Along the coast there's a full force 10 and even here inland we've got force 8 at the moment!
They've just recorded a gust of over 121 km in IJmuiden.
They've given off a code red weather warning for the coast and a code range for us here, brrr.