Water, water everywhere....

[Stacey Steve]

Been out in the shed today as it's so wet.

I have been using my son's designer water bottles he takes to the gym, you know the one's with the click down tops that reseal.

Well if you cut off the white top, you have a nice slow dispersal unit. Have been drilling two lines of holes around the neck, cutting off the bottoms and there you have it. Plant these top down between your plants and use these for watering. Use less water, distribute the water direct to the roots. Leave a crust on the soil surface, so less chance of wind borne weeds taking root. The slugs don't like the dry top either. Also if you are an affectionardo of slug plellets, then they don't get washed away.

Oh I like the boy going to the gym, so fit.

[chilli gal]

Hi Shirley,

I'm from Saundersfoot, what part of the county are you from?

I've only recently joined, so an trying to get the hang of everything.

Chilli Gal

[HeyWayne]

It's been pretty wet here. Been raining since the early hours and has only recently stopped!

[Nicos]

Well...it's FINALLY started here!!

Better nip out and water my tiny pots

[roadkill]

we have had a down fall from 11am onwards , still i didnt let it stop me as i have got 10 battery hens coming on Tuesday so i needed to get there run up and ready so now im drowned like a rat

[Claire72]

Not had any rain here, thank goodness, when it starts here, it tends to forget to stop!!!!
Spent the entire day in the garden, got the potato bed and the carrot bed weeded, then OH put the potatoes in, I did the carrots and onions, (one row of carrots, one row of onions, all the way down the plot, think I have 14 rows in total
Just need OH to make a frame to go over them as the chickens are kicking three colours out of them

[rainbowbrite]

i'm very happy, the rain stopped for about half an hour so i thought i'd go and check on everything and marvel as i often do and it was like night of the disco for slugs, managed to pick squillions off my plot (ok so it was more like 5 but that is still a good number to destroy)

[TonyF]

Our village centre, which is in a dip, is totally flooded - been out with pumps this afternoon trying to get the water out of people's houses. Pompiers are overwhealmed with the work. The roads are completely buggered, so much water has blown the road surfaces, the drains are just unable to cope and people living in the bourg are under at least a meter of water.

New UK people the other side of the village, nice new flat garden with newly installed swimming pool, totally submerged, their new apartment of inder a meter of water, their unpacked stuff in their barn is waterlogged and their building materials in the garage are awash.

We're lucky, we had a small flood when we moved in and had new field drains installed all around the house so our water gets run off into the fields after we've filled the water butts - not that they had any more room in them, already have 3,000 litres in store!!

And it's just started raining heavily again!!!

Going to be a nightmare few days for us councillors.

[scarey55]

Oh Tony, how terrible - It's been raining for most of the day here too but we are mercifully quite high up here.

Here's hoping the rain stops very soon and everything dries out very quickly. Our thoughts are with you and your villagers.

[seasprout]

Weather.

Crickey Tony, your getting it bad, Hope it stops soon.

Not too bad here, wet most of day, but have had damaging winds. Quite nippy as well.

[TonyF]

Good thing is that it's warm here, which is good because the water was up past my knees and once or twice hit the 'O' zone

[Two_Sheds]

Poor Tony, he was up before me ..still pumping floodwater out? It rained all day Sunday ~ you couldn't even see the horizon over the Broads, the sky and river were just a big grey wet blur.
I slept in till 6am today, for a treat. Woke to sunshine, but it's terribly windy outside, there won't be any gardening done today. I'll make up an Excel sheet of all my plantings instead.

[Nicos]

Yikes Tony!
Thinking of you..............

[TonyF]

Just done a tour of inspection and called in on a couple of constituents to check on them. It's an absolute bloody disaster, gouges in the road a meter deep and 4 meters long, some a meter wide, like walking on sponge.

Called ion to the Mairie, spoke to the Maire, who is doing what he can. Most of the other councillors are pre-occupied with their own problems it seems.

So, we have landslides on main roads between the various towns, the Vesere and Dordogne are seriously high and increasingly dangerous and tyhe weather forecast for tomorrow is seriously wet weather - bollox, our daughter flies in for her first visit in three years!!!!!

[BarleySugar]

So sorry to hear how bad it is for you Tony. It certainly puts my flooded garden into perspective. For once lets hope the forecast is wrong, and you don't get the bad weather tomorrow.
Here it dried up about 10am yesterday, and was actually dry for the rest of the day, so I made it to the flower show, in wellies. Today woke to torrential rain, and the river was up over the patio, so looked more like a lake, but it's still got quite a way to go to get into the house. We haven't had it this bad before, but I don't think it helps that our two neighbours have paved and astro turfed their whole gardens at the back, so we're probably getting some of their water too. Dan was supposed to be visiting a friend, but we had a phone call to say he wouldn't be able to get through because of flooded roads.