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Post by wildlifefriendly on Dec 6, 2011 16:16:01 GMT
I've almost got another pond in my garden You are getting a lot more rain than us, we have been having an odd, very light shower, 1 - 2mm over night, which is nothing. This is the driest year we have had for the last 10 years.
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Post by grindle on Dec 6, 2011 18:05:16 GMT
it is seriously depressing
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Post by Lou78W on Dec 6, 2011 18:09:24 GMT
I'm sorry Grindle.....I hadn't realised how much rain you have had
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Post by Cherry on Dec 6, 2011 18:14:57 GMT
I've almost got another pond in my garden You are getting a lot more rain than us, we have been having an odd, very light shower, 1 - 2mm over night, which is nothing. This is the driest year we have had for the last 10 years. No WF, that measurement of rain is not nothing. Nothing is what we get no matter what the weather maps tell you. The rain peters out before the rain clouds reach here. The weather people are now talking about a drought from January until now, with only one night of rain, and I can't remember when that was. Weatherquest say it can't be made up as we need 4 inches to percolate the ground before we can think of filling aquifers. More farmers are making reservoirs. Our neighbour has two. Farmers are requested to share their reservoirs, as crops are rotated, so water would then be available for another sort of crop. The farmers I know already share when they are in a position to do this.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Dec 6, 2011 18:58:03 GMT
You are getting a lot more rain than us, we have been having an odd, very light shower, 1 - 2mm over night, which is nothing. This is the driest year we have had for the last 10 years. No WF, that measurement of rain is not nothing. Nothing is what we get no matter what the weather maps tell you. The rain peters out before the rain clouds reach here. The weather people are now talking about a drought from January until now, with only one night of rain, and I can't remember when that was. Weatherquest say it can't be made up as we need 4 inches to percolate the ground before we can think of filling aquifers. More farmers are making reservoirs. Our neighbour has two. Farmers are requested to share their reservoirs, as crops are rotated, so water would then be available for another sort of crop. The farmers I know already share when they are in a position to do this. Sorry Cherry, I should have said nothing for here. I watch the weather forecast and have noticed when the rain comes from the west, it peters out by the time it reaches you. When it comes from the north it does the same. You are in a high arable area, the lack of rain for the farms around you must be very worrying. It will also effect all of us, if crops are down, prices will rise.
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Post by Cherry on Dec 6, 2011 21:01:44 GMT
WF Don't take me too seriously. If I wasn't in a farming area I would love the dry weather.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Dec 6, 2011 21:15:26 GMT
I worked on a farm during the summer of 76, it was mainly beef and dairy but they did grow crops for winter feed, it was an eye opener for me as to how much the weather effects farming.
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Post by floydie on Dec 6, 2011 21:18:09 GMT
Today i got the last of my Dahlia tubers up (many of them are still green and had buds yet to open, In December!). I hope they wont keep on trying to grow .
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Post by Geranium on Dec 7, 2011 21:42:02 GMT
I started pruning my roses today, but the wind was so strong it was only possible to get three done.
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Post by merlin on Dec 8, 2011 8:07:08 GMT
Finished mine yesterday, had to stake the wheelie bin to stop it blowing away.
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Post by Rosie on Dec 8, 2011 9:10:27 GMT
All i have done is rescue some stuff from the tunnel as the winds are really building here now
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