[Nikkithefoot]

Is this going to be another '76?? No rain to speak of from April until September? Brown grass, dying crops, fresh veg prices through the roof...........I was still at junior school then and remember lessons outside on the grass.

I have only watered my seeds and newly planted out crops for a couple of days then they are on their own!! The patch where I dug in loads of fresh manure in the autumn is still very moist underneath, its the bits of the plot that haven't that are bone dry.

We have just had 3 minutes of heavy rain.....................but its dried up already 

[aqua]

.I was still at junior school then and remember lessons outside on the grass.
couldn't do that now the risks assessment wd be three pages long plus no school fields

[Sid]

We are desperate for rain,have cabbages and brussels that need to get in the ground but it's too dry    have been using whats left in water tank for onions garlic and spuds.
Apparently we have heavy rain coming in for sat,sun and mon, we will see.

[waxwing]

The only rain I can remember this month was heavy but very patchy, it rained on my street but not the allotment half a mile away.
Bit worried after seeing a bloke on my allptment last night, he was watering every thing, weeds an all with a hose pipe and they are banned.
And the BBC keep saying rain but it never comes

Steve

Whereabouts in Rugby are you Steve? and which allotments?

I'm at Eastlands on the school/park side, forgot the number but all I know its the dry looking one

Steve

[Christo]

Same down here in sussex. Bit of a shocker to be honest. I'vd been taking jerry cans of water to the site on each visit! Where's the rain when you really need it!

[witchwoopiggy]

we have rain *dances around the room* has been at it a few hours now 

[Nikkithefoot]

It's been raining here for the last hour or so, proper rain too. I'm so glad I went up the plot today and planted things out, and spent the best part of Weds weeding

[viettaclark]

Literally 1 minute of heavy shower tonight! No rain all April and little in March. I'm exhausted watering the pots, the lettuce have whitefly because they're too dry and all my tulips have died in the heat.
Give me rain!! Please......

[strangerachael]

Whereabouts in Rugby are you Steve? and which allotments?

I'm at Eastlands on the school/park side, forgot the number but all I know its the dry looking one

Steve

Not far from me then, I'm at the Dunsmore Gardens site, next to Ashlawn School.

STILL no rain, though there was a chance of showers forecast for yesterday, not  a drop for us  

Yesterday our water was cut off during the afternoon - that got me worried, thought maybe the reservoir had run dry   but luckily it was back  on in  the evening.

I've got some plants waiting to be planted out and if I wait for it to rain first they are going to get pot bound and sickly looking

oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE  can we have some rain now?  




(edit to clarify quotes)

[totalnovice]

about 8 weeks since any rain fell here, we had a heavey mist about 5 weeks ago, but that is it. My soil has dried up and cracked, thie biggest i've noticed is about 2inches wide! Seedlings are being watered but not coming to much. Think this year will be a difficult one unless we get some rain here very soon. 

[Beklet]

It rained yesterday...for 10 minutes....

Plot is baked hard - partly a blessing as it means the weeds are growing slowly but it's got to the point that when we go to the plot, in the two or three hours we're there, we end up watering the onions 4 times......it is remarkably dusty and our soil is heavy clay....

[Epona_4]

no rain here either.....and this wind is drying things out much much quicker too, we had rumblings of thunder for a while last week but it stayed dry as a bone, just a good night of slow steady rain would be marvellous right now 

[gazza975526570]

dry as a bone here too - just checked next 7 days - 0mm of rain forecast!!

[waxwing]

Not far from me then, I'm at the Dunsmore Gardens site, next to Ashlawn School.

Ahh now I know were Dunsmore gardens are, I thought I was called Ashlawn. I've seen a plant sale advertised for there but didn't have a clue were it was 

Any one else noticed a lack of weeds but lots of flea beatles this year, I put it down to the lack of rain.


Steve

[madcat]

We had an almighty thunderstorm on Thurs night - but virtually not rain - and woke to rain on Friday morning and sympathised about BBQs and parties ....  but it was actually next to nothing.  All dry again by 10am ...  and this cold drying wind is making it worse.  I really need to get parsnips in .... but there is no rain forecast for here before the middle of may!!   :blink:  There is very little left in the tank and the beans are gonna need every drop of it ....