[mumofstig]

We had a cracking thunderstorm last night, actually got up to watch it for a while as it was too noisy for sleep  Quite a bit of rainfall, as well, so only needed to water in the greenhouses today.

[Puenktchen]

We seemed to have missed most of the rain here as well. Our area is always quite dry but this year is exceptional. Just a few mm of rain so far this month. The soil is like concrete, I had to dig with a mattock.
I am watering the essential plants on the allotment twice a week, doing this since July, lots of watering cans, the upside is that I have very strong arm muscles now ;-).

I heard today that some farmers have trouble getting their fields ploughed as the plough is just bouncing off the ground as it is baked hard.