After all of the cold winds and a few warmer days the fields are beginning to show the effects of the weather. We've had no real rain for five or six weeks and the fields are rock hard and cracks are beginning to run through the fields. Despite this the crops are doing well having been drilled at a point when the ground was moist and receiving steady rain rather than heavy downpours and deluges.
The wheelings in this wheat field are clearly showing the effect of the dry weather and the fissures are beginning to run all over the land but as the farmer says they'll help get the water straight down to the roots where it's most needed.
Some steady rain must arrive soon although at this time of the year this dry period with steady drying winds seems to be a regular occurrence.
Mild days and some steady rain to really moisten the ground. We live in hope and optimism.
Hi John
ReplyDeleteThings are desperate up here in Yorkshire - the poor River Leven at Hutton Rudby is below 'normal' summer levels and we are only just into May!
We need some of Brk Trt Alan's rain sending over from New England.......
Thanks
Alistair
Alistair, We're promised heavy rain on Wednesday but I have no doubt it will move on. My seven water butts, big ones, are almost empty The problem isn't heat it's the drying wind but paradoxically the main drains are brim full and the powers that be run it out to sea. Before you ask I don't understand either. Joined up thinking, a plan, or a strategy for water does not exist in this country. I remember the weir pool below the bridge at Hutton Rudby. I caught some love trout there and an eel on a fly too. I do miss North Yorkshire. All the best, John
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