Whats That Wet Stuff Again?

[KiwiGardener]

Its winter here in New Zealand. Shortest day has been so now its downhill to spring. YAY.

But, things are looking really poor here. We've had no rain in months!

Yesterday a Southerly ripped through the country (is in the North Island at the moment dropping snow) and all we got were enough spits of rain that you could count!

As said in another post our well is way own and nearly dry.

I bet... just as the well goes dry we'll get a heap of rain and we'll get some bad flooding. This happened a few years back and washed out part of the birdge beside us on the highway. :unsure:

[ondinelamer]

I was just looking at some photos and thinking how lush everything looked elsewhere. It hasn't rained here in weeks and things are looking pretty brown. I've had to water every night. Last year, my roses almost rotted, it was so wet. Now - if I water them well, they love it but everything else is drooping!

[MrSeedy]

I think we must be in about our fifth year of drought here, though last spring had almost too much rain, and my cherries on my young cherry tree all turned brown , when they were still small and dropped off from some kind of fungus. Well this year May was very dry and without any spray for fugus, since it could return, just about every cherry stayed on the tree to maturity for a heavy crop. Now if the robins would just leave those cherries alone. I sometimes wonder how most farmers around here survive with the shortage of rain, and there are few that can afford or have the water to irrigate their feilds. I've seen "fatalities" in those established trees and shrubs in some cases around the neighborhood as well, but I always water the shrubs and small trees as well. Now if that water bill just wouldn't break the "bank". Best of luck getting some badly needed rain Kiwi!!!

[ondinelamer]

Well, I'm here at the computer because IT'S RAINING!!!!! I got up early to water everyone and heard this sounds on the roof I didn't recognize at first. It is a soft, gentle rain, too, so hopefully, a lot of it sinks in. WOOHOO!

[MrSeedy]

Seems our next several very hot days may offer some of those quick moving and spotty thunderstorms that are so common around here, but it seems they most often miss us entirely and if we do get a short downpour it just runs off , since it comes down so fast. Not the best way to get rain here! Some spots to our south by sixty miles got rain yesterday, but we didn't get a drop. We need one of those slow overnight soakers , but in general those are only common here in the spring or fall, and we only can hope for repeating thunderstorms over the same area all day to give us any drought relief!

[arcticwolf8]

It has been verry hot and muggy here the last few day and dosn't look to be any relife in sight. It has been hovering in the low 90's verry unusal for our area.I have been having to do what work out side that need tending to in the late evening.it's only going on 1 pm right now and it's already 86.and were not even in the heat of the day till around 4 here. -_-

[Ichigo]

:blink: SAme with us, although I hear we may get a break on Thursday, it'll be in the 80's. Wow-- what a break!! :blink: And we don't have air in this big ol' house! :( I'm melting......melting...MELTING!!!! ;)

I wish it would rain soon......

[yellow22]

It's more than a mother natures sneeze in New Jersey. I think it may not be too late to plant and reap some apple grourds from seeds I found becaue it's raining.

If only I was a gardener back in when the order of the day was to hit a keg party...it rained almost every late afternoon one summer...just enough time to get home take a show and party some more...what a waste of a season.

Those seemed to be the days.

Well gone dry...that so serious. Hope you get some gentle rains in the near future.

[Comtessa]

We've been getting quite a bit of rain so far this summer, and I love it. We'd had some drought in the past few years, and I missed my slugs.

[KiwiGardener]

We've been getting quite a bit of rain so far this summer, and I love it. We'd had some drought in the past few years, and I missed my slugs.
Ya know what? We had a very wet summer here too, with little sunshine.

Now we're got a very dry winter - I wonder if you'll get the same winter as we've got here now?

[MrSeedy]

I only wish we'd get your winters here KiwiGardener!!! It can stay below freezing for month solid here in the winter, with lows of -25--30C and highs of -10 C and colder for days at a time. And ours isn't the coldest weather in the northern U.S.
Here one of the challenges in gardening for hardy plants is even finding those that will take such winter cold, though there are plenty that do. Even some roses have trouble surviving our winters.