Heavy rain?

Tigerhair · Post: # 19770Post **Tigerhair** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:09 pm

At the end of Gardener's world Monty said there might be heavy rain about this weekend/early next - how should I protect my baby plants? Will fleece cloche affair do the job?

ina · Post: # 19980Post **ina** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:17 pm

Bit late, this reply... Anyway, did you get the heavy rain? We've not had much - some rain last night and today, but not exactly heavy!

Fleece might not be strong enough for small seedlings, if it's really heavy rain.

Ranter · Post: # 20063Post **Ranter** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:53 am

We'd already had heavy rain by the time Gardeners World was on. A downpour of biblical proportions.

Having said that, my boyfriend - who lives all of 8 miles away - had no rain at his place...

Tigerhair · Tue May 16, 2006 10:23 pm

ina · Post: # 20154Post **ina** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:41 pm

Batfink · Post: # 20167Post **Batfink** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:12 am

We had rain. Lots of rain. Destroyed a corgette plant and was the last straw for our peas (which I thought were pretty robust). As an experiment I did cover a couple of my strawberry plants in 2ltr bottle cloches - but I don't think they made a difference to be honest!