Green and pleasant land?
I'm going to change my name to Aquarius.It's been yet another week during which most of my time at the allotment has been spent attached to the watering can. About…
The heat is turned up
We still haven't had any significant rain. We have had some very light drizzle that dried before it hit the ground and some that dampened the ground for a few…
If it wasn’t bad enough
Still no rain. It's as though someone has switched off our water supply. Widespread thunderstorms were forecast, but none made it our way. Empty beds that were waiting to be…
Then there were five
It's been a showery week, but again there hasn't been sufficient water deposited to penetrate the ground. The few millimetres of wetness dried up quickly when the sun came out…