"Moonraker" wrote in message
...
On 10/11/2011 13:30, Dave Hill wrote:
On Nov 9, 5:57 pm, Dave wrote:
Just when I had got going lifting the dahlias and the soil was drying
out to make the job almost possible we are having more heavy rain with
more forecast for tomorrow.
I'm already finding rot in quite a few tubers, this is just what I
don't want.
David

Well today started bright and sunny and the temp has gone up to 58f in
the shade, quite a bit more in the sun out the field, got to feel hot
lifting dahlias, some so wet the soil is clinging , othere not to bad,
better than I expected after an inch of rain yesterday, but then this
is the wet end of Swansea bay.
David
It seems to me to have been quite an unusual rain pattern this year. We
have had quite long spells of drizzle but little actual rain (a nearby
pond is still almost completely dry), whereas a few miles away they have
been inundated with the wet stuff.

--
Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire

My daughter and son in law's large pond, fed by a natural stream before it
overflows into the Village Pond, has dried out to such an extent, that they
have the builders in at present, re-building the banks, because when we had
all of the rain a while back, the banks were undercut and collapsed!!!!!

But it is a large pond in a landscaped and walled garden ;-))

Mike
--

....................................

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

....................................