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[aldabra]

You know how I bang on about the Victorian drainage here not having been designed for our current rainfall?

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[khalinche]

Alarming stuff. I found the map at the end of this article quite interesting: http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/14/07/2012/133937/Dry-weather-hampers-Western-Isles-crofters.htm

[aldabra]

OU tutor says this is a change in the jetstream which may be a permanent consequence of the Arctic ice melting. I rather hope it isn't. I don't know what grows well in temperate monsoon, apart from undifferentiated leggy undergrowth.

[lnr]

The blackberries are looking like they'll be good this year...

[feanelwa]

I think we need to develop a variety of rice that can cope with temperate temperatures.

[aldabra]

I've got some rice, here. I keep meaning to plant it in my mini-paddy outside which was trying to grow African millet and sorghum, but doesn't have drainage holes and keeps flooding overnight. Perhaps I will actually put some rice seeds in it, as I next leave the house.

[feanelwa]

Ah. Rice works differently - you have to germinate it like a normal plant then transplant the seedlings into the flooded area, then let the flood dry out slowly over the growing season. If you plant the seeds in the flooded area it just goes mouldy, if you grow it like a normal plant it doesn't grow enough grains to eat.