Grass growth (lack of)

[Woolless]

Sorry, you must be the only bit not getting any. The forecast I saw suggested nowhere would escape the weather front moving over Fri-Sun.


Heavy smurr about an hour ago for 5-10 mins. And it's doing it again, been on 15mins. Long may it continue

Rain quite often dissipates before it reaches us in the far east. We'll see.

 

[muleman]

We have had a couple of nights rain, can see a difference already

Nothing here Appleby area, well just a damping, had about 10 ml since 20th march

 

[Skintagain]

Nothing here Appleby area, well just a damping, had about 10 ml since 20th marchView attachment 879503

Mmmmm Brown. Looks familiar. Lambs look nice and clean for it mind you.

 

[muleman]

Mmmmm Brown. Looks familiar. Lambs look nice and clean for it mind you.

Sheep havnt taken any harm yet but want to ve turning cows out before long really.

 

[hally]

Nothing here Appleby area, well just a damping, had about 10 ml since 20th marchView attachment 879503

Unusual, my neighbour is 80 and she reckons never had a spring this dry. My grass seeds been in over 3 weeks and not a thing but all up through this morning and hopefully a bit more at the weekend. I keep my fingers crossed for you ?

 

[Bob the beef]

Good soft wetting rain here last 2 nights. Total 12 mm. giving 28 mm siince 10th March. Transformed things in 24 hours. Hope the heat over next 48 hrs doesn’t evaporate it?

 

[Greythundercloudys]

We had a good few heavy showers yesterday and much milder and damp today, but forecast looks dry from now on for the next week or two again.

 

[Kezman50]

Nothing at all here and been the case for weeks. Heat might bring some thunderstorms later in week but who am I kidding we’ll probably miss anything. Don’t think I’ll be making June hay this year. Melton Mowbray. Leics

 

[puppet]

Big change after a day of good drizzly stuff. Another splash on Thursday coming will hear the grass growing

 

[DeeGee]

Still nothing here, no proper rain for almost two months. Long grass in hay fields looks ok to be honest. Spring barley not too bad but increasingly showing Mn deficiency and could do with a really good soaking: as could emerging maize which is out in rows but desperately in need of rain.

Almost every year here seems to be the same now, wet winter then long dry springs with no really good growing weather and none of those April showers that used to get things humming along in late spring. The chances to roll land are increasingly few and far between; too wet in early March, then a fortnight of drying weather when all the sowing has to be done, followed by increasingly hard and unyielding ground that is too dry to roll!

Is it just me or do others feel that every spring seems to be the same story recently?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Still nothing here, no proper rain for almost two months. Long grass in hay fields looks ok to be honest. Spring barley not too bad but increasingly showing Mn deficiency and could do with a really good soaking: as could emerging maize which is out in rows but desperately in need of rain.

Almost every year here seems to be the same now, wet winter then long dry springs with no really good growing weather and none of those April showers that used to get things humming along in late spring. The chances to roll land are increasingly few and far between; too wet in early March, then a fortnight of drying weather when all the sowing has to be done, followed by increasingly hard and unyielding ground that is too dry to roll!

Is it just me or do others feel that every spring seems to be the same story recently?

We are definitely seeing extremes these days....long wet winters or dry ones followed by a wet spring...certainly not the traditional seasons you used to get

 

[muleman]

We are definitely seeing extremes these days....long wet winters or dry ones followed by a wet spring...certainly not the traditional seasons you used to get

Has there been any rain over your way last couple of days? Not even had a ml here yet not far away they have had a days steady rain...never known it like this at this time of year before and forecadt showing another dry month ahead and hot, a bit worrying! Fertilizer just lying on the top, not even washed in last few days when a bit of rain was forecast!

 

[onthehoof]

Just want to doze off and wake up 2021,
2020 is the year the world got f##ked

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Has there been any rain over your way last couple of days? Not even had a ml here yet not far away they have had a days steady rain...never known it like this at this time of year before and forecadt showing another dry month ahead and hot, a bit worrying! Fertilizer just lying on the top, not even washed in last few days when a bit of rain was forecast!View attachment 879726

Early Tuesday morning and early Wednesday morning we had a shower on both mornings, didn’t check rain gauge but it’ll of only been a couple of ml each time

 

[firther]

no rain here either apart from a few spots, and that were it. heavy due this morning though which were a little surprising

 

[Spartacus]

Had 24-36hrs of constant steady rain till midday yesterday, 34mm in all, was just what we needed to give things a bit of a lift and get the grass moving again, was starting to get a bit brown before that.

 

[muleman]

Had 24-36hrs of constant steady rain till midday yesterday, 34mm in all, was just what we needed to give things a bit of a lift and get the grass moving again, was starting to get a bit brown before that.

A friend just below lancaster send some pics and he said similar. ..it would be an exaggeration for me to say the becks were in flood but they were over half full and fast flowing.

 

[Spartacus]

A friend just below lancaster send some pics and he said similar. ..it would be an exaggeration for me to say the becks were in flood but they were over half full and fast flowing.

Ours are the same, had some completely dried up now flowing nicely, might only last a day or two but at least it's got things going for now, and might have just given me the chance to get the roller on!

 

[DeeGee]

Really envious of all you people around Lancaster! Sod all here and no sign of anything coming this month.

 

[Skintagain]

I’m going to have to get my welder out this weekend and make a couple more water bowsers!