Hooray for the rain!

Shirley · Post: # 56728Post **Shirley** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:17 am

Good plan M3 - thanks for that info.

We've just had a shower but still need more - lots more.

Thomzo · Post: # 56739Post **Thomzo** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:05 am

Aha - thanks M3. That is interesting. Will have to invest in a rain gauge.

Cheers
Zoe

Cheezy · Post: # 56745Post **Cheezy** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:15 am

Still no bloody rain, they've been promising it for the last 3 days now!

wulf · Post: # 56748Post **wulf** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:33 am

Of course, when it does rain, that means more slugs and snails come out to play! Still, I'm hoping for more of the wet stuff this week even if it does mean I have to make my, er, crop protection rounds (*) more frequent.

Wulf

(*) With a head torch and a sharp knife...

red · Post: # 56754Post **red** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:58 am

been raining for two days now - bit overwet now. have 6 waterbutts full, and collecting rain in a bucket and adding to the pond. - juice container arriving next week - so i expect it to stop from that moment on!

Shirley · Post: # 56773Post **Shirley** » Wed May 09, 2007 3:31 pm

YAY YAY YAY it's RAINING - glorious WET rain... we've even got puddles! I even went out to get wet - might even take the soap out and have a selfsufficientish shower

Cassiepod · Post: # 56866Post **Cassiepod** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:27 pm

My joy and enthusiasm for the rain was not shared by my more mundane colleagues this morning.

However the ground has now had a good soak in sustained steady rain

Hopefully we'll get some more, it's dried out for the time being. Also seems to have had a good impact on the river too.

Better double check the gutters and get water butts installed.

Shirley · Post: # 56870Post **Shirley** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:39 pm

Still raining, though not as much as last night/this morning.

It's LOVELY!

wulf · Post: # 56874Post **wulf** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:24 pm

This morning I took off some more of the small polytunnels I'v been using. I'm not entirely convinced how much good they do and they get in the way of natural watering via rain and also my slug-hunting. Certainly the plants in there are now large enough to survive without them - it would be tragic to have them die of thirst when there has been plenty of this glorious water falling from the sky!

Wulf

Millymollymandy · Fri May 11, 2007 11:13 am

Oh you lucky people. All we had was very strong wind and a lovely big elm tree was fallen this morning. It had just missed my dear ancient apple tree plus several other trees by cms........ and the house!

It was so close to the house it could have done some really serious damage, not to mention it would have come pretty close to me in bed during the night!

Still, lots of nice free firewood!

red · Post: # 56962Post **red** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:51 am

oh glad it missed your house!

horray for the firewood!

Thomzo · Post: # 56963Post **Thomzo** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:16 pm

Oh M3 - that must have been pretty scary

. Thank goodness you are alright. The firewood is a silver lining though.

Zoe

Millymollymandy · Fri May 11, 2007 5:34 pm

Cheers all. The tree is now chopped and split and stacked and hasn't made anywhere near as much firewood as we'd hoped, because despite the fact it was 40 foot tall the kind of elms here are rather slimline! Never mind though, we didn't have to pay for this wood.

littlebluefish · Sun May 13, 2007 12:53 pm

A good load of wood for the winter then?

We're trying to garden in mud with rivers running down it on a 45 degree slope! Much slapstick fun until we gave up and came inside for a (warm) shower.

Millymollymandy · Mon May 14, 2007 5:31 am

We finally got some decent rain at last although I am sick of this bloody wind!