GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post - Father, it has been three weeks since my last rainfall....

Muriel · 06-09-2009, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin[_2_]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:47:41 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2009-09-03 21:24:50 +0100, Martin lid said:

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:10:36 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill
wrote:

On 3 Sep, 09:48, wrote:
David WE Roberts wrote: ....but it is raining tonight!!!!!

Oh, yes :-)

No doubt I will get fed up with it after the first few days, but perhaps the
grass will no longer look like a ginger person's chest wig.

Wierd - ten miles inland and all the lawns are green, but here on the coast
burnt brown is the fashionable colour.

Western people, thank you for finally leaving us some.

Yes, we are obviously near you or in a similar east coast place. *Our
fields have been brown for some weeks. *Everything with shallow roots
is well dried up though the trees (including our fruit trees) are
fine, in particular we have had the biggest crop of plums ever this
year.

--
Chris Green

Now I know who they were talking to on Gardeners World when they said
that now is a good time to treat your Decking whilst the timber is
dry.
Here it would make more sence to fix oil drums to it and use it as a
raft.
We've had 2 3/4 inch in 48 hours, yesterday we had 1 inch in less than
2 hours.
PLEASE when you address the clouds wanting rain do Add your Post
Code
David Hill

We have not only torrential rain but thunderstorms and 40-50 knot winds too.

Rained on and off here today, rained all day yesterday, without cease.

There is an annual national Dutch boat show taking place in the marina in
IJmuiden. Yesterday gusts of winds there reached force 10. The marquees provided
were popular during the torrential rain. Most people left as soon as there was a
brief pause in the rain.
Thunderstorms continued all last night. ATM it is dry. Locally beach cafes are
being dismantled already.
--

Martin

PLEASE send me some of this wet stuff. Here on the east coast (40 miles inland) we have had only 2 light spatterings in 6 weeks!! My poor flower pots are crying for a drink & I spend hours with my watering can trying to save all but sadly lose the odd one. It is always hotter and drier here, apparently this is the driest county in UK