On 26 July, 19:19, Dave Hill wrote:
On 26 July, 17:33, Sacha wrote:





On 2009-07-26 15:11:14 +0100, "Bob Hobden" said:

"Dave Hill" *wrote
We now have had 14.6 inches of rain so far in this part of South Wales
with rain forcast for the next 5 days,
It's not doing the dahlias a lot of good,
The run off has cut into the ground
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...%20mist/runoff....
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the last struck cuttings around 70% have died due to the wet and
all the plants have just about stoped growing.
With all the rain the feed has been washed out of the ground and there
is no point in applying a liquid feed till we are due for a few days
of dry.
Had a phone call a couple of days ago from a customer in Deal (Kent)
who said she was just going out to water the plants as it was so dry
there.

So different here, maincrop potatoes are going over due to lack of water,
difficult to water with a watering can, and we had to water our carrots
today as they were also looking thirsty too.
Walking about on the plot this morning weeding etc and no mud on shoes at
all.

Come on over. *You could just about swim on our lawns!
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No mud?
Here we all have muddy footprints, and I do mean all

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...atsartwork.jpg

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To support the tree dahlias I have 9ft posts knocked into the ground
every 30 ft then the canes inbetween strung near the top and tied to
the posts, the dahlias are then either tied to the canes or a string
around the clump with 2 or 3 canes
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...edahlia01..jpg
One of my seedlings from last year has rather interesting young
foliage, a nice plants even without flowers
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...iagedahlia.jpg

David Hill