- 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.
Nothing measurable here still. Your 2mm might not do much, but it'll do more than nothing!
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.
10mm last night , more Monday , 12 weeks till harvest . Game on !
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 weatherI feel it will be a sept harvest here, especially when the last of the barley will hopefully get germinated by Monday’s rain
Must admit that after spraying yesterday, we had an unexpected hard frost this morning . Thought we’d seen the back of them.Very dry and freezing our nuts off here crops going backwards agronomist has stoped all spraying because of frosts every night
Your sand land cleaned up in 2012 though when we were drowned outMuck isn't a silver bullet that's going to solve everything in my opinion. We farm light land and do exactly as bossfarmer suggests. Plough power harrow lots of muck. 2018 last dry year was a complete disaster. Still haven't cleared losses from it now. Crops welly boot height. Under 1.5t/acre spring barley not even a bale to the acre of straw. Heston bale.
Farm would be better as a quarry it's just sand and gravel. We don't own it though.
In wet years it stands rain fine. Get good crops.
Crops were decent but the crop still gets wet and won't go through combine whatever the soil type underneath its growing in.Your sand land cleaned up in 2012 though when we were drowned out