Weather

[mark smyth]

It is very difficult to wet the ground properly with a watering can or hose pipe. The soil in some places is actually shrinking away from raised bed walls

[TC]

Maybe most of you would like rain but we had it all day on Monday.  The past few days have been sunny and warm - if you think 18c is warm.  We went to Brodick Castle gardens yesterday and it was more like the end of May.  However, they had warning notices up about muddy areas and the danger of slipping.  Earlier in the year they had a landslide which gouged out a 50 yard wide area all down the hillside, luckily missing any of the choice shrubs.  If I can get Photoshop to downsize the rhoddy pictures, I will post them in the Rhododendron section.
I have been up-country in the past few weeks passing Lochs Doon, Bradan and Riecawr.  They are at their highest levels I have seen in 36 years.  No doubt we will have a hosepipe ban in a month's time!

[David Nicholson]

Well I did it! What, you may well ask? I shade painted my greenhouse yesterday when the outdoor temperature reached 22C.

Today, reasonably warm but I've just put a jumper on, grey skies and drizzle on and off all day, and rainy spells forecast for tomorrow. This happens every year when the great controller in the sky sees me get my shade paint out

Mark, next time you do a rain dance make sure the Rain Gods know what your address is please    

[mark smyth]

yes I see you are in for heavy rain tomorrow while we bask

[David Nicholson]

That's your fault, playing around with the Deity can be dangerous!

[Maggi Young]

Joakim, I've been thinking that very thing all week! You are quite right!

[mark smyth]

If only you could hear the plants singing outside right now. It's raining good and hard. Just in time for me to plant out the bedding display tomorrow. This year it will be all red using c150 Arctotis 'Red Devil'

[tonyg]

Raining ... good and hard ... sorry can you explain?  Not a concept I am familiar with any more!

[mark smyth]

Must be a Norn Iron expression meaning heavy.

Bright sun between clouds today. The rain hardly penetrated the ground

[Maggi Young]

We've had rain on and off today and yesterday  and most of last night but it hasn't been very heavy. If it turned to heavy rain now, then the lighter rain over the previous hours would be more inclined to soak in better but there is no sign of that, the sun is out just now! TSK!

[David Shaw]

The forcast tells me it has been raining here this afternoon, Maggie. Funny, I didn't notice it - lovely day. We had welcome rain on Thursday that soaked the garden nicely and it was wet yesterday when we went to Perth show.
Today we had ClanMinty in for a short while on their way to Fort George and then Jim Sutherland's. Ian has a busy week ahead planting all his produce.

[Maggi Young]

I expect those little Minty's are quite a size now? I haven't seen them for a while. They'll be big enough to be a bit of a help in the garden, I would think? You've got to train 'em young, don't you think? They came to the Aberdeen Show when they were little and the oldest girl, whose name excapes me ( all their names escape me, I'm hopeless) first visited our garden when she was a tiny little baby, only weeks old as I remember,  she sat in her carry seat thingy in the cutest colourful outfit and slept through most of the afternoon!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Today was our 24th successive day without rain, temp. 24°C... everything bonedry... 

[David Nicholson]

Some bits and pieces coming in from the Atlantic for us tomorrow. It might make it to Northern France Luc but I doubt if you will get it.

[Hans J]

Here still 27 ° C -and no rain since 3 weeks !
By digging weed today I could feel that the soil is dry ( for the first 5 cm ) but deeper it is cold - this must be from the cool nights .
I hope for rain -but the forecast says rain for thuesday - with a possibility of 15 % - later warm + warm +warm ....