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Lack of rain in some areas
I am surprised not to hear about lack of rain in gardens/allotments
this year.There was a lot of comment on the BBC weather news earlier this year when the SE and E were threatened with drought,but now that they have had some rain,it is not thought to be newsworthy when other regions are suffering. I know about two microclimates-one in S.Manchester where there has been some rain occasionally but nothing more than half an hour of light rain.Crops on my allotment are not doing well and are drying up before cropping even after some watering.Dwarfing rootstock (M27)apple trees are producing small early fruit with not much flavour. The second area I know about is S.Herefordshire where I have a cider apple orchard.Here there has been even less rainfall-essentially none since March.The orchard grass has completely burnt off and three trees (medium sized) have already died with their apples smaller than table tennis ball size.All fields around are totally brown-sunflower crops locally are about 9" tall only and it is a serious drought condition.I am sure that the water table has dropped dramatically and we will need some very heavy winter rain for it to recover. I would be interested to know whether I am unlucky to have two small microclimates without rain,or whether it is a more widespread phenomenon. Michael |
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