Water! Water!

   The drought continues. Tichy amout of rain in the last week. Not enought to do anything really other than cool things down a bit.

Drought affected cauliflowers

  The last of the second earlies, variety Anoe, have now been lifted. Somehow the last couple of feet of the bed has been overlooked until now. As the photograph shows the drought has badly affected my autumn cauliflowers and the whole crop is a right off. Sun,bit of rain, sun really did not agree with them at all. Still picking the outside the poly tunnel Wautoma cucumbers which are now starting to show signs of coming to an end. They have been one of the plants that I have watered using my precious supplies of rain water and once again they have been very good. The courgettes are still producing with two or three this last week. Enough for my consumption! The second sowing of haricot vert managed to produce a crop certainly enough for two meals! The last of the melons have been picked and despite the drought they have done ok. A decent seed tray of tomatoes picked. I am grateful for any tomatoes to be  honest given the poor start to the year. The winter brassicas are hanging in but I fear if we do not get some rain very soon they too will be a complete loss.
   On the chicken front the chicks have settled into their new enclosure with one or two deciding that outside the wire if better than inside! Still getting two to four eggs a day from the other flock which is fine for my use.
   The weather forecast over the next week is for some light rain at the week end but that is still a few days out so it cannot be depended on. Will the sun ever go away?