Ground slightly damp😃

[Grassman]

I am struggling to remember our land being this wet at this time of year. January to March perhaps but never the beginning of November. Seems all we get is extreme weather nowadays.

 

[Kevtherev]

Same in October November 2019 it never stopped

 

[Kevtherev]

 

[yellow belly]

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2023 is wetter here
october 2023 is the wettest month for 30 years
since 1982 only June 1982 and august 1992 have been wetter
10 inches in the last 8 weeks the average is 4.5 inches

 

[Still Farming]

Slightly

 

[Cjm]

Seems to be getting wetter on the East of the country in the last 10 years

 

[Green oak]

miss coffey would say that’s Unexpected our weather normally comes from the west.

 

[milton-95]

Saw these post on Facebook earlier

And yes ground is absolutely sodden!!

 

[bluebell]

Back in the summer, or was it last summer, with the heat, and resevoirs nearly dried up, they were saying we needed a wet winter to refill all that and the ground water, short memories, or is it like round here, that when it rains, the drainage system, that is the rivers, ditches, road culverts are totally neglected? Example, the other morning about 6am ish, i was driving along my stretch of the main road it was raining, and all, not a few, road culverts, were blocked, the water was just running down the kerb edge, not down the culverts, whats happened to the tanker man from the council who used to come regular to clear these out, just for starters? Then the river? well thats just about chocked up, looks like beavers have dammed it in many places here? With a mixture, of dead, or collapsed "shrubbery", garnished with choice items of rubbish, such as plastice bollards, plastic drums, plastic containers? plastic this that and the other, where does that lot all come from? washed, blown, or dumped off the road?

 

[Oldmacdonald]

Back in the summer, or was it last summer, with the heat, and resevoirs nearly dried up, they were saying we needed a wet winter to refill all that and the ground water, short memories, or is it like round here, that when it rains, the drainage system, that is the rivers, ditches, road culverts are totally neglected? Example, the other morning about 6am ish, i was driving along my stretch of the main road it was raining, and all, not a few, road culverts, were blocked, the water was just running down the kerb edge, not down the culverts, whats happened to the tanker man from the council who used to come regular to clear these out, just for starters? Then the river? well thats just about chocked up, looks like beavers have dammed it in many places here? With a mixture, of dead, or collapsed "shrubbery", garnished with choice items of rubbish, such as plastice bollards, plastic drums, plastic containers? plastic this that and the other, where does that lot all come from? washed, blown, or dumped off the road?

Pop out with your drain jetter.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Pop out with your drain jetter.

I would have done.
But now I want public money if I'm to do public good.
It works both ways.

 

[workin f nowt]

I think 2012 was worse for me. Both 19 and this year all drilled up and away. I do favour early drilling mind working on the theory of easier to slow a forward crop than encourage a behind one. Grass weed isn't a major problem. Famous last words.

 

[workin f nowt]

But ground is definitely full drains running full but only this last fortnight

 

[Wombat]

But ground is definitely full drains running full but only this last fortnight

I think this year it never got a chance to crack up and just get some tilth in the ground so it hasn;t taken it as well. Upto the last 2 weeks it was certainly much better than both 2012 and 2019. Now hmm who knows.

 

[beardface]

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Seems to be getting wetter on the East of the country in the last 10 years

Autumn's seem a bit wetter now, but on the whole the rest of the year tends to be getting dryer.

 

[robs1]

2012 started out wet earlier and we got nothing drilled at all, to be honest wish we hadn't bothered drilling the small bit of barley we have drilled this time, the rest we intended to drill some spring wheat and maize and hit the BG really hard. Might do a lot of fallow and save on the work, we have a building project to do so might all work out

 

[Grassman]

2012 started out wet earlier and we got nothing drilled at all, to be honest wish we hadn't bothered drilling the small bit of barley we have drilled this time, the rest we intended to drill some spring wheat and maize and hit the BG really hard. Might do a lot of fallow and save on the work, we have a building project to do so might all work out

Are you heavy clay?

 

[bobk]

Biggest problem is the weather has been crap since middle of june , unprecedented in my lifetime
Going to desert again in a month , need my arid fix

 

[L P]

Bets on a hose pipe ban next year, double or quits by 1st July?!

 

[Treecreeper]

Bets on a hose pipe ban next year, double or quits by 1st July?!

Here in the SW Colliford and Roadford reservoirs still only 52 and 55% full at the moment, odds not great.