- Location
- North Kent, UK
Nothing for April, just a couple of immeasurable splashes! Monday’s forecast shows rain coming off the Atlantic .... that usually fizzles out before it reaches this corner of the country.
Who's worried about the lack of rain?
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Bogweevil
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You are right, there has been some response.
- Location
- Left in the middle of nowhere
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I'll get shot on this thread for this comment but I'm fed up of rain. Rained nearly every day last week and forecast same for next week. 20mm total last week.
Wouldn't be so bad if heat with the rain but everything has literally stopped. Even the weeds aren't growing.
At least the moisture will guarantee us a crop of silage and some straw from spring barley.
Tin hat on.
Wouldn't be so bad if heat with the rain but everything has literally stopped. Even the weeds aren't growing.
At least the moisture will guarantee us a crop of silage and some straw from spring barley.
Tin hat on.
- Location
- East yorks
It’s a fair comment, meanwhile we still haven’t had any rain to wet the bloody concrete since mid March. Monday is the hope at the moment
- Location
- East yorks
I feel it will be a sept harvest here, especially when the last of the barley will hopefully get germinated by Monday’s rain
- Location
- northumberland
@10mm in the past 3days but you can hardly see any difference in the grass seed ground sown on Thursday
Drilled s barley may 5th and January 18th in the last 20 years always been around August 15th harvest . Nature always seems to call the shots and always has . 2006 wheat was barely fit August 5th 2 weeks and 3 inch of rain August 22nd it was fit . 2nd September we was done . We have grown w barley since 1969 and no matter what the weather or variety come 20th may awns are showing , 8 weeks later combining no matter what the year - just the weather
- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Very dry and freezing our nuts off here crops going backwards agronomist has stoped all spraying because of frosts every night
Must admit that after spraying yesterday, we had an unexpected hard frost this morning . Thought we’d seen the back of them.
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Don't think we will be safe from a frost till mid May, its quite common to get the odd frost till then but this year is a pi$$take .
- Location
- Lincolnshire
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Your sand land cleaned up in 2012 though when we were drowned out
Flintstone
Member
- Location
- Berkshire
Had 11mm a few days ago, but the crop response hasn’t been that much due to these constant frosts and cold winds. It’s a strange season.
Spring barley that was drilled early March is just sitting there, not moving on.
Spring barley that was drilled early March is just sitting there, not moving on.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Crops were decent but the crop still gets wet and won't go through combine whatever the soil type underneath its growing in.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire
Frost damaged rape flowers taking yield away
- Location
- Limousin, France
My ground is that hard I've taken the Erth to it. Not sure it's the best thing to do at this time of year but it will let in rain in if it rains next week. Had about 50mm of rain in the last 2 months. Normally have plenty of grass at this time of year but been round the grazing grounds once and there is little regrowth. I think compaction ( it slumps or compacts for fun), then heat in March, then cold with frosts in April have slowed or stopped the grass. Winter was wet, filled up the local pond 1st time in 3 years.
