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Hi all, I've copied and pasted this from "best practices".
I was given a rain-gauge for my birthday last winter and have been keeping tabs on rainfall. This is what I have for the past few weeks:

May 15-16: 22 mm Gone cold again with 17 deg max.
May 22: 6 mm - a heavy burst fri 2 pm
May 25: 15 mm. Previous day fine + warm
May 26: 32 mm - windy, sunless, near-constant but
not heavy rain.
May 27: 10 mm - less windy and not cold.

A few dry days followed, then
June 2: 10 mm - pm + o'night pds of rain, not hard
June 7: 5.5mm. Quite cool.

Then 2 hot days June 9 + 10, then wind turned Northerly

June 11 6 mm - Overnight rain, then dry + cool
June 14-15: 1.5mm overnight.

On the whole it's been less windy with the rain than usual here. I've constructed windbreaks out of polythene packaging and bubblewrap, which is doing a decent job of sheltering my peppers. Time will tell, but a visit yesterday found the toms beginning to get going. The spuds look very fine and tall, but my new ones are not yielding many tubers per plant.

Hope this info is of some interest.
mike

OH won't learn from nme i picked my beans, peas, and dug potatoes last night as it said it was going to be wet this morning,
I look out of the window this morning,and there is OH picking peas and beans in the rain, so i quickley went over and stood with a big umberella over him, he cracked up laughing.

Morning OC

It is so lovely having you there to report on OH; has he regretted introducing you to the forum yet?

Dear Chantal, i never regret anything i do in life.

Well i thought we had had a lot of rain through the night, but have just been digging potatoes and it is still very dry under the surface of the soil.

I have just had a thought, anyone North West of Milton Bryan will be getting rain clouds that have passed over us. Please enjoy them as they will be very special.

alan refail wrote:Well, last night it did rain, and it's still raining now, and forecast to last all day

How soon before we get another "When will it ever stop raining thread?"

And here it is Eight days after my post.

Wind every day - raining today and more forecast -cold - dark....

Is 2008 turning into 2007 - or something worse?

Lovely sunshine here Alan, a most pleasant day.

Lovely gentle rain here today and the forecast for tomorrow is not too bad. But I was checking on my weather records for June today and found that so far this June we have only had three days when the temperature rose over 20 degrees, not much of a flaming June, is it? July and August should be warmer, though, it usually is. Our dwarf beans look very unhappy, so I am going to sow another lot.

Hi all,

Lovely day here today, just started raining about an hour ago, but very gentle.

Gentle rain here too in the last half hour...I have planted out some Brassicas today so it's just the job....but could do with rain only on them and not on the Roses please...Rose Sunday open day...this coming Sunday...

...and not so much wet that I can't sow a few rows of salad tomorrow...

Clive.

Hi Clive,

Is rose sunday an open day or a showing competition??

Sorry for my ignorance.

An open day...hopefully with a bias towards Roses

Clive.

Hi Clive,

I really hope all goes well for you and your roses.

Please let us all know how it goes.

I've had the same as Clive - a couple of hours' gentle rain, enough to compensate for my not getting onto the plot today.

mike

Hello,

Well it rained again today...didn't measure it at work but at home it was 5mm in 10 minutes....
...thankfully this was at 4-20pm....ie; late on in the Rose Sunday open day..only a very light few drops earlier in the day..and we had some good periods of sunshine....so all in all it was a good day which has hopefully added a decent amount to the greenhouse repair fund.

A few photos I took quickly today...mostly Roses..but a few rows of Tateys and Dwarf Beans manage to appear in one piccy

Clive.

Dear Clive, the gardens look an absolute picture, you and your team have done a first class job.

It's been a sunny old day here, but the wind is not relenting one little bit, with some very strong gusts.