Monday, July 11

Battling on

The pantomime in London that dominated our news channels last week didn't depict the only battle that was going on.

We are still battling to keep our crops going on the allotment. We still haven't had any rain. Martyn, has a weather station in our garden and last week he told me that we hadn't had a day when the rainfall reached double figures in millimetres since February. Martyn has posted more details about our lack of rain here. We have also posted a video showing the state of our plot here.

We are trying our best to give plants enough water to keep them going but any watering that we manage can't penetrate far into the ground. The wind and latterly the heat soon dries the soil. Watering is made all the more difficult as when there is more than one person filling a watering can at any one time, the pressure drops and you can only fill it very slowly.  

Over the weekend it has been too hot to garden during the day and we have had to pop to the allotment to water in the evening when lots of people have had the same idea.


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Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett

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2 comments:

  1. tpalsJuly 11, 2022

    It's so similar here in the midwest, US right now. Last night was our only forecast chance for rain and we didn't get any. I went heavy on mulching and setting up soaker hoses this year which does help (all in my garden so no sharing water sources), but the hot dry winds still has an effect.

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  2. NadezdaJuly 13, 2022

    We have rainy weather. For two nights there were 2 thunderstorms and a huge amount of water. This must be the same water that must have spilled in our garden in England. Poor plants! Some of them have fallen and others are happy. Hope some of this water will fall on your place, Sue.

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