Kitchen Garden Forum

There was blue sky here this morning Fabulous. I didn't get soaking wet going to school either. Brilliant.

It won't last and the rain will start this afternoon but hey, what does it matter? My Gertrude Jekyll rose has just opened its first bud in 2 years and it's beautiful. A wonderful heady fragrance that can be smelled 3 doors away. It's all this rain done it good. There's another 7 buds to come so can't wait. Plus, all the greenfly have drowned so there's a bonus.

Peckers up chaps and chapessess, maybe this is the last bit of horrible weather before the summer really starts. Get your bbqs primed and ready for action. The summer will be here soon

I have a friend who works for the BBC and she says that Everton the Weatherman is predicting a late but warm summer. Here's hoping!

Can't complain - it hasn't snowed today. Nearly everything else; almost a frost, sunshine, torrential rain, hail, thunder, lightening, gales.

Rain - more rain. Rain - more rain. Rain - more rain........

Chantal, Is that the same fella that predicted the really bad winter we were supposed to have.

There's a lot of wind here....and that's just the dog....

Same here - husband says it's the dog. Dog says it's the husband.

I'm voting with the dog.......................

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Hi Jopsy,
Do you mean a friend is a person who misses by a mile!!!

There they were, drilling a borehole.

I read in my paper that damage from wind and rain is widespread amoungst the more delicate plants and many blooms, with paths already seas of mud.

'76 drought and Dennis Howell, "Minister for Rain", appoint a minister for dorought and it starts to rain, dig a borehole and you get swamped.

Quick everyone, buy sun-lamps.


Mind you bar one occassion as a child with dad when I remember a bright hot day and a massive strawberry stand, my abidng memories of many Chelsea visits are of thunderstorms passing while in the big tent.

Don't know Arthur, he did predict a good summer last year when I asked in about February. He's also come up trumps when I've enquired about the coming weekend etc so he's not that bad I guess. At least he's an optimist

Seedling and I had a brilliant evening, dashing around on my plot bunging in some beans and courgettes. We've only planted a few of them in case the weather gets too cold and we lose them but just being able to do something was wonderful. They were well watered in last night too.

I`ve just read in the paper that we are getting the "wrong sort of rain" . For goodness sake ! The drought warnings are going out, which seems ridiculous, when most of us have been soaked for a week or so. And now we`ve got the rain we so desparately needed, its no good. Do these people have too much free time? Discuss.
Rant over .Thanks for your patience, Seedling

As I understand it we need lots of drizzle to soak into the ground as opposed to the torrential downpours we've been having that disappear down the drains or just run off into rivers etc. I may be wrong, but surely any rain is good rain when there's the possibilty of a drought?

You are right - need more bogs and ponds and less drainage. When many water authorities in the South are using boreholes into aquifers if everwhere is built on or drained how can the underground reserves ever get replenished?
By the way, in areas like this why does leakage matter surely it just goes back to the aquifer and round again? Not a serious point really.

On looking on the metcheck web site I was very pleased to see that the latest forecast now has it dry from Sunday on - for this part of Wales. When a New Moon occurs (Saturday) the weather trend does seem to change. The biggest problem at this time of year, apart from the danger of frost, is wind. Last year, again at this time of year, my runner beans were blown apart. This year I put them in bigger pots and moved them in again on Monday because of the wind.