France

[roitelet]

Slow moving thunderstorm yesterday, Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! At last some significant rain, 26mm which is the most we have had in one go since some time last year. All we need now is some regular overnight rain to keep things going. Faint hope.

Every thing is steaming this morning and the sun is trying to break through the mist.

[Jardiniere]

we've had torrential rain here - tree down at the end of the land - not ours - blocked the little back road - we werent here tho weve been walking in the Aveyron for two days - weather was lovely there.....
the garden looks as tho its been picked up and dumped back again ...all the little plants have their bottom leaves covered in soil .....

[TonyF]

Ar last, some hot and sunny weather, second day in a row with NO RAIN. It's rained here every day since the 7th June, thin k we had one day when I thought we'd got away with it but it rained early evening.

Flaming June, not really. Finally managed to get some gardening done yesterday and will cut the grass tomorrow, lost some plants - drowned or rotted off - and the cold has really checked things, we've even had the central heating on in the past wwek or so it's been so cold at night.

Still, meteo now looking better!

[Jardiniere]

same here .....its been beautiful for two days...prior to that it rained virtually every day for what seems like weeks and weeks and weeks. The pool is almost 4 weeks behind schedule.. my shallots have started to die and rot in the ground ....altho all the onions and garlic are OK (different part of the plot) and all the smaller plants still have soil on the underside of their leaves.....so another different year.....gardening is never boring is it?

[roitelet]

Still DRY Dry here!!!!!!!!! Next time it rains Pleeeeeeease send me some. Onions are not swelling Don't think that the spuds will be very good and things are dying for lack of water. Cabbages look fine though and the Broadies are good.

Oh well win some loose some

[TonyF]

So hot yesterday, 37 on our terrace (north facing) and that's well covered with a vine. Good news is that the potager is finally coming on well, already got all the toms, aubergines and peppers set up with bottles so they had a feed also last evening.

Even managed to get out and strim/cut the grass at the front of the house yesterday and after me porridge this morning, strimming the back round the potager - love to see what passes for grass here shorter and being able to walk between the raised beds!

ttfn chums and chumlettes.

[Nicos]

33C and rising....(in the shade on the North facing side of the house)

...hens and geese panting in the shade poor things- I'm hiding indoors to keep cool (tis 22C inside)
Don't ya just love these granite houses in summer

[scarey55]

40� here and boiling hot - in fact, if I was doing any washing 'twould be hand hot

I'm currently dying of hayferver at the moment so I can't go outside and it would be too hot to work even if I could. Everything is keeling over in the garden and even more so in the greenhouse.

Still, I'm not complaining and the meteo and barometer are both showing rain and thunderstorms for tomorrow, just as well we are going house hunting eh.

[Tomatoking]

Same here in Cotes d'Armor, really really hot, well over 30 degrees and no rain for weeks and weeks! Everything in the garden is looking pitiful, the polytunnel is like a sauna and the veg garden needs constant watering. My poor girlies' fields are full of dust and they are constantly covered in flies, poor loves. Yes, the good thing about old French houses is that they are lovely and cool inside, so best to stay in and work on the computer I say! We've got rain forecast for sometime tomorrow, but as we've friends over for dinner would be lovely to sit outside, so hope it waits til the night!

Mrs TK

[roitelet]

It made 34 here today, on the north side in the shade Like everyone else the garden is suffffffffffffering badly Even at 8pm tonight it was almost too hot to be planting out the leeks. Spent most of the day in the old cowshed/workshop the only really cool place, that is when I wasn't watching the Tour

[TonyF]

Over 40 here yesterday, stayed in most of the afternoon and didn't water the veggies until after 9 last night but we have a storm on the meteo so may get some relief today.

[Nicos]

woohoo...we've had rain!!!

Fantastic storm in the early hours and the soil is wet now down to about 10cm.

( bit more please)

[Tomatoking]

Well still haven't ! Predicted for monday and tuesday now!

[roitelet]

A few drops in the early hours but the sky is dark and the meto says a possibility of storms. Heres hoping, 'cos all the buts are empty and the veggies are thirsty!!

[Tomatoking]

Well finally we have had our first drops of rain this morning. It looks pretty dark and cloudy overhead so we might get a good downpour.
The lawn looks like the Sahara desert, and our flower garden is looking pretty dismal.
So the rain is very welcome, for now!
Mr TK