Thursday, March 11, 2010

Dry brown fields everywhere!

No photos sorry but it is so dry here- we have had hardly any rain for weeks. I have had to start feeding hay to the horses already when normally I don't need to give them hay until May. I am very worried that unless we get rain soon we will have no autumn growth. The mornings are cooler now and if we get an early winter we will really be in pooh street.
We have had a great crop of corn and tomatoes, reasonable crop of courgettes, beans and lettuce but I can no longer water the garden in case it doesn't rain as we only have about 3 weeks of water left in the tank. The tank at the barn is empty, the shed tank is feeding the troughs and we have less than a metre in the house tank.
Mark had found a spring on our hill so hopefully by next summer we will have a good gravity fed supply for the gardens. ☻

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