Spot the hose leak

[asmp]

Oh for some rain for the fields. (The leak is only when the hose is turned on to fill up the field waters so we’re not wasting lots of water).

 

[poiuytrewq]

Bet everyone’s fighting over that field!

 

[Barton Bounty]

Lmao , ???

 

[SEL]

You'd have all the rabbits gathering there at night in my field! Driving me mad digging holes in the burnt grass and solid ground - keep filling them in with horse poo thinking that one day it'll rain again and perhaps it'll fertilize everything.

 

[PapaverFollis]

Oh my. I won't complain when I get rained on (again) this afternoon, I promise.

That's really very dry.

 

[milliepops]

I have a little green strip like that under the overhang of the field shelter ?

Tempted to puncture the hose pipe to make some more ?

Why is it the nettles are still green when the grass is all burnt to a crisp??

 

[Polos Mum]

I have a little green strip like that under the overhang of the field shelter ?

Tempted to puncture the hose pipe to make some more ?

Why is it the nettles are still green when the grass is all burnt to a crisp??

Worth trying them on nettles - a couple of mine love them once they've dried out a bit. I pull them and just leave them junked in the field - they are always gone in a couple of days.

The thistles they scoff as soon as they are pulled (which I don't understand)

 

[milliepops]

Worth trying them on nettles - a couple of mine love them once they've dried out a bit. I pull them and just leave them junked in the field - they are always gone in a couple of days.

The thistles they scoff as soon as they are pulled (which I don't understand)

Mine pull the nettles up but won't eat them thistle flowers are a delicacy though it seems ?

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Why is it the nettles are still green when the grass is all burnt to a crisp??

My nettles are all dying back now, withering up. Little A not impressed as she's been having a bunch of cut ones in the evening, the last few days she has sneered at my increasingly withered stalks.

SEL, yes, blooming rabbits must have metal claws to dig!
I have 3 x fence posts to replace, just not even worth thinking about doing at present.

 

[milliepops]

I've even got tiny green docks making another attempt! There must be some moisture deep down somewhere ?‍? bleddy weeds?

 

[Lois Lame]

No... don't rouse on the weeds. They are doing good things while the grass cannot do what it would like to do.

 

[asmp]

I’ve never known it this bad in the 11 years I’ve been at this yard. We strip graze so have a bit left (of dried up grass and weeds) for another week or so but the field that I shut off a few weeks ago hasn‘t grown at all. That field is supposed to be my autumn grazing ?.

Last year we had enough grass up until Xmas (which was a first too)

 

[scats]

I remember lots of hosepipe bans up this way as a child. Summers were always hot and dry here with scorched grass.
Think we’ve got far too used to wet summers!

In 1995 my best friends family had a massive extension done and we lived in a big tent in her garden for the whole summer. It didn’t rain properly until the day before we were moving them back into the house.

 

[Quigleyandme]

I’ll stop whining about the frequent rain showers here in the cool, lush, green west of Ireland immediately ?

 

[milliepops]

No... don't rouse on the weeds. They are doing good things while the grass cannot do what it would like to do.

Nope, I really resent this level of greenery from something inedible when the rest is turned to dust ?