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Torrential at times here..(like Suzie above).
Fieldmice in swet and mushy strawberry bed... a real pia.. they eat the ripe ones and pull and collect the green ones.
Set a trap but as we have fields nearby I will only catch a few of the 1000s .. (caught 5 in greenhouse in a week till I found and blocked up hole).

Male quails very subdued except during sunny spell at lunch... quail is due on menu in 2-3 weeks and I know exactly .. 3 males for the chop:-)

Garden path flooded as usual but it will not last. My goji plants (all 18 grown from seed) have been transplanted and growing away madly in this wet weather ... but on a raised platform as slugs appear to find the leaves irresistible.

Want to collect cow dung from field to rot down as compost for next year but it's far too wet: a dried out from the sun consistency is easiest to handle (and far less smelly).

Himalayan poppy has 5 heads.. waiting for some sun.
Propped up pear tree as it is starting to groan and sag under the weight of pears...

Been down lottie today first time since Wednesday lots of rain But good news all my plants have shot up so have the weeds!

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Lots of showers yesterday but much brighter today. Light showers are forecast.

So much for "Flaming June"

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http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

Nice at the moment but the signs are we are going to get it big time around 16.00 (over 7mm boo hoo)

Thunder, lightning and lots of the wet stuff!!!!

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http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

I'm thinking of building an ark here in Lincolnshire!

Claire

Don't ever think of Cornwall as being a sunny county. Has been raining most of the time for the past week. Warm though and weeds growing at a gallop. Don't care much as I'm moving to Spalding in a couple of weeks Hurrah!

You will be able to help Seahorse with her Ark when you get there then jacob

I've just finished my ark...


(it's for quails).

Got to build a bigger one.. for turkeys - Grow your own Xmas meal:-)

Spalding is now under water. So it should be cheaper now.

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Roll on Summer.

Sold my wellies and bought waders...

working in bromsgrove for the next three weeks and amazingly had only one five minute downpour,hope it stays that way!!!!

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Trousers

Up and Down

http://hollycottagegarden.blogspot.com

hmph - we had heavy showers all afternoon and evening - got bloody wet at the Hill digging a few spuds for tea. Mind you, they tasted good.

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Hazel
www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com
update Sat 20/12/2008......End of year report - plot d (legumes)!.....

Cloudy, cold and quite windy.

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Kindest regards, David.

http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

Hmm we had flooding locally Monday.. the drains in road were blocked and water ran down road and some into our yard and out the other side into the field (we are halfway up a hill with ground sloping away so the only flooding we have is front path under .5 metres of water..)

Tomatoes slowly coming. One pepper slowly coming.
Strawberries mash : what the mice have not eaten that is!

Raspberries brilliant. Last year's heat and dry spell (we had cracks 1 metre long 10 cms wide and 25cm deep) did no end of harm to new canes.. stunted growth - so I ended up transplanting surplus ones and adding wood ash in autumn. These are growing like crazy with very thick and vigorous stalks.

The fruit is loverrrly .. big juicy berries - which I pick between donwpours.

Himalayan poppy flowered - but its was NOT Himalayan.. Shame.. I like the colour. Bought more seeds to try again..

Beans - french and runner - strating to flower. Blueberries with fruit - not ripening - lack of sun?
Weeds doing well in strawberry bed.

Quails started laying, one escaped (flew out of pen when I opened it and got lost . Found later run over by car:-(
Another quail injured by bigger male in fight and died :-(

Making new quail pens.. (too wet to garden thoroughly).

Sunflowers growing - about 0.6metres tall but beset by slugs and snails - eating the tops! - so more slug pellets which I don't like to use.

I took over my plot ( an overgrown bomb site of 200sq mts) last October After many back braking weeks it was finally cleared. The shed put up (very important for those hard earned cuppas) greenhouse erected and 10 ton of horse manure spead. I eagerly awaited the first signs of spring. Sure enough, the cold weather finished and the sun came out,Yippee! Every evening straight home from work and into the jeans, out there digging. Hard work but I loved it. I planted seeds in the greenhouse, potatoes and onion sets, on the plot. I was on a roll. Every weekend was spoken for and I couldn't have been happier. Pretty soon there wasn't a slip of ground not planted up. Then the rain started. To begin with I welcomed it. This was doing far more good than my watering with the hose. Now, with the ground being heavy, so much is lost. Cabbages are being consumed by the slugs as are the lettuces and other brassicas. The peas have rotted and the onions are beginning to.Puddles are all around the plot and the ground is too wet to stand on and weed, so the thistles, docks, and dandilions are growing at an alarming rate. As I look at all the mess I could cry. To cap it all the council have nailed a notice to the gate to say that the 'leisure garden allotment judging' is next week!

Well we have had 2 nice days sunshine and all now we have just payed for it thunder lightning hail heavy rain the lawn has gone white what next i wonder roll on winter it might dry up then jacob

Dry today. I weeded... picked more rasps.. Looked at the strawberry bed - a disaster - and gave up. Watched Federer instead.

At 6.15pm today it was hot and sunny, at 6.20 pm we started a thunder storm, exactly an hour later we have devastation, I have a rain gage in my garden so I can tell you we had 1.2 inches of rain. It started as hail and progressed into deluge. MY neighbour has had the side of his house blasted by hail so much the paint covering his coping has almost all gone.

I had to rush out with a brush in an attempt to sweep flood waters away from the back door. I am very damp now and we won.

I got quite scary for a while.

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Roll on Summer.

Well it is back to normal rain most of day i think i must have run over a Robinjacob

Skinny vests and hot flushes in surrey

must congratulate who sorted todays weather out it has been a boster now going for two in a row

So dull and cloudy today I have had to have lights on to be able to read. Cool and gloomy...Is it really July..

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Roll on Summer.

And RAIN!!

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields