After a very long spell of dry weather necessitating watering the allotment every few days we can at last have a week off after the allotment got a good soaking from a storm on Monday afternoon. I'd finished sowing some Buckwheat, as a green manure crop, where our trial potatoes had been lifted. The seed packet said to water the seeds in well. I look northwards into the sky.
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| Monday Afternoon, 13th August 2018 |
To water or leave, hoping we'd get some rain. As we seemed to have missed most of any storms around this summer I decided to water. By the time I'd emptied a couple of watering cans full over the bed it was spitting with rain. I headed for the shed and just made it in time before the torrential rain arrived.
We had a cup of coffee and watched the rain come down for about half an hour. The Buckwheat was certainly watered in well by the time the storm had passed. It did stop raining but threatened another downpour so we did some very quick harvesting before it began raining again.
It looks like we're going to have a bumper crop of Oullins Gage plums this year. There's still lots to pick so we might be giving a few punnets away.
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Hallelujah!
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