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Hi Catherine,

At last......the rain has started :D It started about 9.45 last night and is still going strong. The wind has dropped as well which is good. I have only planted 6 sunflowers. I leave them at the end of the season for the birds. I love watching the greenfinches tear them to pieces.

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Cheers PJ.

I'm just off down the greenhouse. I won't be long...........
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Hi PJ Our rain only started yesterday. Dreadful wind all weekend shredded most of my sweetcorn. PH made a frame for my cabbages and we put netting round it and then fixed some fleece round it as well. The rain started very lightly yesterday very on and off and today it got steadily heavier. It has stopped tonight.
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Hi Catherine,

This weather is really crazy isn't it. I looked at the 5 day forecast and the wind was from a completely different direction and speed each day. At the moment it is very calm with hazy sunshine.

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Hi PJ I dont understand the weather at all. Today we have had a lovely day today. Everyone else is getting heavy down pours and we got light rain on and off yesterday Last night I was planting my dwarf runner beans out and it started to do vertical rain for about twenty minutes I just kept going. No wind just heavy rain. Then it went and it has not returned and it looks like we might have a thunderstorm tonight. It is really humid. But at least my sweetcorn has had time to recover. I hope they will be ok now.
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Hi Catherine,

We've had rain pretty much all day today. The watercress is growing well anyhow :) I was going to plant some more climbing french beans out today, but it was just too wet. Hopefully it will be drier tomorrow, but I'm not counting on it. How's your cucumber doing?

Cheers, PJ.
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Iffy :cry:
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Oh dear!

I haven't bothered with them this year, but I am looking after my neighbour's greenhouse at the moment, and he planted one in there before his holiday. It is just sitting there sulking. I just hope it is still alive when he gets back on saturday.

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I have a courgette which has been planted in a growbag for two weeks and is also sulking. Dont know what to do as it is outside and I cant decide whether to put it back in to the polytunnel and see if it wakes up.
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By the looks of it, I shall be picking the first of my courgettes next week :)
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Doesnt look like I will be eating any of mine for ages. :(
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