Rain.....
 

........isn't the word, we need a new one. It's persisted down since 4pm
yesterday. About 11 this morning it eased a bit so I donned wet gear and
went to inspect the allotment. 90% underwater, up to 5". I'm gonna lose the
majority of crops I reckon. Might get away with strawbs, broad beans and
possibly cabbage. Seeds nurtured indoors, then greenhouse and planted out,
months of work gone :(

Pete C

Rain.....
 

"Pete C" wrote in
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.......isn't the word, we need a new one. It's persisted down since
4pm yesterday. About 11 this morning it eased a bit so I donned wet
gear and went to inspect the allotment. 90% underwater, up to 5". I'm
gonna lose the majority of crops I reckon. Might get away with
strawbs, broad beans and possibly cabbage. Seeds nurtured indoors,
then greenhouse and planted out, months of work gone :(

Pete C




I know the feeling well! Gutted.
IME this year after standing water the potatoes have done well.
Broad beans are so/so, some recovered and some died, same with peas.
I had some carrots sown indoors in bog roll cardboard, planted them out
with a bulb planter and they are yellow now, not green, so they are
probably not going to do well.
Everything else is/are non-starters.

Hope you get some better luck in the near future.
Baz

Rain.....
 

"Baz" wrote in message
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"Pete C" wrote in
:

.......isn't the word, we need a new one. It's persisted down since
4pm yesterday. About 11 this morning it eased a bit so I donned wet
gear and went to inspect the allotment. 90% underwater, up to 5". I'm
gonna lose the majority of crops I reckon. Might get away with
strawbs, broad beans and possibly cabbage. Seeds nurtured indoors,
then greenhouse and planted out, months of work gone :(

Pete C




I know the feeling well! Gutted.
IME this year after standing water the potatoes have done well.
Broad beans are so/so, some recovered and some died, same with peas.
I had some carrots sown indoors in bog roll cardboard, planted them out
with a bulb planter and they are yellow now, not green, so they are
probably not going to do well.
Everything else is/are non-starters.

Hope you get some better luck in the near future.
Baz

Thanks, I remember your probs. 2 months of nurturing seeds indoors then
greenhouse all down the drain. I'll start some stuff again in the hope of a
late summer. Like David Roberts reckons (above)
Pete C