Grassman
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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.
2023 is wetter here
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.
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.But ground is definitely full drains running full but only this last fortnight
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Seems to be getting wetter on the East of the country in the last 10 years
Are you heavy clay?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
Here in the SW Colliford and Roadford reservoirs still only 52 and 55% full at the moment, odds not great.Bets on a hose pipe ban next year, double or quits by 1st July?!