Bob Hobden wrote:

"Rodger wrote in message
Some rain for the first time in about 6 months would be welcome!
Watering
the grass in October is a bit unusual.

What address should I send some of our rain to? After a long
droughty summer and fall, much drier than usual, it's pouring
down outside like there's no tomorrow. Regrettably, a lot of it's
just running off instead of soaking in.


That's what is going to happen here when it does start, it will pour down
continuously but will run straight off into the river (Thames mainly)
because the ground is so dry and I bet we get flooding again this year in
the Staines/Chertsey area.

Yep you can *almost* guarantee a *monsoon* season as in previous years..
I for one will be trying to capture some of the water and reduce runoff
with miniswales, and cover crops to prevent soil loss.
Esp on our hilly allotment.

So much land drainage and loss of soil stored water and trees combined
with changes in weather patterns and we are now seeing the longer term
results


//
Jim

Still, what a spring/summer/autumn we have had.

Won't know until next spring how many plants/trees have died through lack of
water.