On 04/23/2011 09:40 AM, Bob Hobden wrote:
This drought is getting serious now.
We have had no proper rain for two months with only one small useless
shower in that time that I can remember. Been watering our allotment
since we put in the Shallots and Onion sets in the beginning of March.
For us, watering in March and April is unheard of! Now we have a lot of
stuff planted we are watering almost daily as if it's the height of
summer, even plants that should cope like old currant bushes are having
to be watered, and the ground is bone dry to quite a depth.
How is everyone else coping?

Certainly miserable in Normandy. Dry as a bone. Thundering now, I took
the car to the car wash as a sort of incantation.

Water butt is about empty, we'll be pumping from the well soon.

They say this year is dryer than the legendary '76.

-E