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I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 3:12 pm
by macca66
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My son played here on Sunday.
No tree watering required this week
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 3:41 pm
by kcpoole
Now I know why I live in Sydney
We had lots of rain too
About 7 mm over most of the city
Ken
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 4:00 pm
by macca66
27 mm on Sunday alone.
( p.s. You can exist in Sydney,
You can LIVE in Melbourne
)
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 4:01 pm
by Boics
And a bit more to come easing off pretty much by Friday..
It's been a wet and cold week around here!
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 4:07 pm
by kcpoole
macca66 wrote:27 mm on Sunday alone.
( p.s. You can exist in Sydney,
You can LIVE in Melbourne
)
Said by a melbournite who knows no better
If you believe hiding inside from the rain is living then, unfortunately the PR people have brainwashed you into believing that
Been such nice weather here, riding a motorbike on the crap days is awesome
Ken
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 4:18 pm
by dansai
27mm? That's a bit of drizzle around these parts. Heavy rain here has been up to 100mm in an hour.
Not that we've had much rain lately but when we get in 25mm and hour can be pretty normal.
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 7:44 pm
by Elmar
It rains mainly at the end of my hose.
Never measured it tho!
Cheers
Elmar
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 8:59 pm
by macca66
Elmar,
Did you just go X rated?
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 14th, 2015, 10:11 pm
by Elmar
macca66 wrote:Elmar,
Did you just go X rated?
Not that I intended to! Lol but I get what your talking about...
Cheers
Elmar
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 15th, 2015, 4:17 pm
by Andrew Legg
dansai wrote:27mm? That's a bit of drizzle around these parts. Heavy rain here has been up to 100mm in an hour.
Not that we've had much rain lately but when we get in 25mm and hour can be pretty normal.
Blimey, do yup grow your bonsai hydroponically?
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 15th, 2015, 8:18 pm
by dansai
Maybe a little exegeration! But 25mm in a day isn't that big here. We had a rain event of more than 25mm a day for a couple of days followed on the third by 350mm which included over 100mm in an hour. Apparently it is not possible to rain any heavier.
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 15th, 2015, 9:36 pm
by macca66
Life would have been perfect in Western Sydney!
Isn't that called Wagga
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 16th, 2015, 11:41 am
by Waltron
Weird thing is, after all that rain a few of my maples/elms started growing... during a cold snap with no sun smack bang in the middle of winter.
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 16th, 2015, 1:06 pm
by cre8ivbonsai
Waltron wrote:Weird thing is, after all that rain a few of my maples/elms started growing... during a cold snap with no sun smack bang in the middle of winter.
Same here, 2 elms have kicked off and are almost fully bright green, crabapple has started spot flowering
... mean while some tridents are still hanging on to last year's leaves
Re: I turned off the automatic watering system
Posted: July 16th, 2015, 10:33 pm
by macca66
Ash still has some of last seasons leaves.
Japanese Maple group is budding.
Big Zelkova has 6ish of last season leaves (bright yellow) and a dozen new leaves just popped.
Old Elm usually only drops a 1/5 of leaves has popped new ones everywhere.
My ever flowering Azalea has plenty of new flowers which are water logged and will need to be be pinched on the weekend.
Another Elm has popped leaves.
My Magnolia in the front yard is in full bloom, 6 weeks early.
What the hell is going on?