judith
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Blessed rainIt has finally arrived - perhaps I can put the watering can away for a day or two 
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Bugs
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Seems to have just stopped here but has been pleasantly solid all morning. At the train station this morning most people were huddled under the cover, I went out along the empty platform and took off my glasses so I could feel the rain...I often get a seat on my own on the train 
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Behemoth
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June 15 St Vitus
St Vitus is one of those obscure fourth century martyrs. The story goes that his father, angry because his son had been converted to Christianity by his nurse and her husband, turned him over to the authorities. Angels danced for him while he was in prison, thus he is the patron of dancers, actors, mummers and those inflicted with fit-producing diseases like epilepsy and chorea (also known as "St Vitus' Dance). He is also the patron saint of Bohemia and he helps those who have difficulty rising early. His emblem is a cock or a dog.
If St Vitus' day be rainy weather
It will rain for thirty days together
Blackburn, Bonnie and Leofranc, Holford-Strevens, The Oxford Book of Days, Oxford University Press, 2000
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sean
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Doesn't that woman come and sit next to you?
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Behemoth
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| Bugs wrote: | | I often get a seat on my own on the train |
That's because you keep going "There she is!.She's there again, can you see her?"
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Bugs
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I feel you chaps are not fully concerned with my distressing situation. 
| Behemoth wrote: | If St Vitus' day be rainy weather
It will rain for thirty days together |
Is there any kind of guarantee with that?
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judith
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| Behemoth wrote: | June 15 St Vitus
St Vitus is one of those obscure fourth... |
Shouldn't that be St Swithin? I have a friend whose birthday it is today - he very narrowly missed being called Swithin!
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Bugs
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St Swithin is July, 40 days...might be the 15th as well though.
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judith
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Oh yes, you're right. I'll read several pages of my Penguin Book of Saints as penance!
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judith
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It also means that I didn't forget my friend's birthday
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Behemoth
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| Bugs wrote: | I feel you chaps are not fully concerned with my distressing situation.
| Behemoth wrote: | If St Vitus' day be rainy weather
It will rain for thirty days together |
Is there any kind of guarantee with that? |
Absolutely....none! 
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Nanny
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blessed raindon't know what you lot are talking aobut
it heaved it down here on sunday night - woke me up actually and last week it rained at least once....
it's raining here today
i can honestly say that i haven't had to water my pots and hanging baskets more than once since the middle of may
i was going to do some this evening but i doubt i will have to now.
mind you, we have also had the north wind from siberia and stuff just hasn't been growing well at all and you lot have had the sun i believe.
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greenbean
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Where I live in Scotland, there's something wrong if it doesn't rain at least once a day. 
My older and wiser neighbour burst out laughing when I told him I was growing sweetcorn.
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Nanny
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blessed rainsame with me
this year i didn't grow so many brassicas and so far theya re the only thinf that is really doing well because the weather has been so inclement
sweet corn not good
peas awful
beans even worse
cauliflower brill
cabbage superb
turnips big as a horse's leg
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greenbean
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Oh dear. This is my first year growing anything. I am growing, sweetcorn, courgettes, all sorts of beans, carrots, cauliflower, beetroot, brussell sprouts, onions, radishes, lettuces, tomotoes, peppers, basil, leeks, strawberries, butternut squash and pumpkins. So far have 'harvested' 2 x lettuces and slimey half eaten radishes.
I like your turnips/horses leg analogy
I thought suffolk would be a lot drier being on the east. 
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Blacksmith
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Was doing the "trudge" to the water trough and back and forward and back and for........... (you get the picture) at my allotment yesterday evening, and it would seem there is very little growth anywhere.
Talking to some other "allotmentists", some have sown seed 2 or 3 times with very little success.
Also found another half dozen onions with white rot.
Dave
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greenbean
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I really didn't know that there was a particularly low rain fall in the south-east this year.
How frustrating for all gardeners.
I shall stop complaining about my rainy days now!
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wellington womble
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It hasn't rained here for ages - lots of days with big black clouds threatening, but no actual performance. I am very glad I made my mum by a seepp hose for my birthday!
Don't worry, anyway - its wimbledon next week, so the southeast can expect solid downpours for at least a fortnight!
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Nanny
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blessed rainnormally i would agree with the east side being drier but this year it looks like we are copping more than most
it is a bit local though.we had rain on sunday night but 20 miles away in ipswich i am told that they had none.maybe it's because we are closer to the coast
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