Hi mxk3, Same here. This drought has been a nightmare. I have several plants that I want to move, but it's pointless when it's so hot and dry. Maybe the west coast's atmospheric rivers were all the rain we should have gotten. Helicopter watering is very stressful and time consuming. It's been raining light and steady all day.💧

I know, so happy to finally have rain, wow!! And it’s chilly too, so good sleeping weather tonight; I love falling asleep to the sound of rain.

But this little dude doesn’t like going potty in the rain, we have to take him out with an umbrella. :-/

Yes! I’m thrilled. I didn’t even complain about the rain during my son’s soccer game lol.

Happy for you, for sure! Each droplet is a beautiful sound, I know.

Amazingly we also had rain yesterday, after a month with none. But it does bring out these guys.

Floral, those are huge!!! We get snails sometimes, which are never larger than half an inch. Not sure I could bring myself to touch the ones in your photo.

It was great to finally get an hours-long rain. We still only got 1/2" so hoping that the predicted rain for Tuesday happens, especially for the farmers!

O, nothing here whatsoever...but this is east anglia. I have more or less seen off the resident snails (weeks of hunting them down) but slugs still chew on my succulents and certain plants are motheaten now, despite a month of drought. I have only bought plants for dry gardens (apart from veronicastrums and a couple of sanguisorbas which are unlikely to survive) but as all are this seasons plantings, I am doing a weekly furtive night watering because there is a hosepipe ban at the allotment.

I am ignoring this high-handed demand.. it is very disabling for those of us who cannot carry endless 10litre cans up and down the plot and it is poor horticultural practice, doing daily dribbles with watering cans instead of a weekly deep watering of newly planted seedlings and my potatoes. Next year, my plants will be established but this season, plants carry far more priority than some council dictat...although I use the hose to fill cans (therefore vaguely following the rule...just avoid the trudging up and down from the standpipes. The water is turned off from 1 October till 1 April which limits a lot of autumn planting so although we had a wet March, irrigation is a struggle in sandy soil.

Yes it was a blessing! With more forcasted this week...yay!!

We are getting a deluge (after about a month of almost nothing).

(Maybe as much as 50 mm/2 in.)

(You too @woodyoak zone 5 southern Ont., Canada?)

(i actually went outside at around very early this morning..about 1 am, to check on the 'fullness' of our rain barrels!)

Helicopter watering is very stressful and time consuming.

Couldnt agree with you more @Jay 6a Chicago and may I add...expensive.

Hi Rouge, everything has grown fast and big this year, and if it's been dry and the temperature climbs to 90, some plants wilt. I grow a few plants in regular soil that like consistant moisture, and normally they do fine with being watered every few days, but when the ground is very dry they need watering daily. I have several small pots of seedlings and I have to water them daily or they will fry. It did rain lightly all day yesterday, but it wasn't a deep soaking. Hopefully things will revert back to a more normal pattetn soon. I'm enjoying all the plants immensely. Those cast iron plants that multiply and are impossible to keep behaved; they don't get any water and they laugh at me anyway. So many surprises. Just today I noticed a blooming Viper's Bugloss, which was a surprise because I was certsin I had eradicated them. It's slick evasion from my eyes has earned it the right to take up that space. I'm curious to see how the bees react to it. I'm growing bog plants now and they use a lot of water, and they must have rain water. I hope you get some good, soaking rains asap!

rouge - we got 49mm yesterday of a gnood soaking-in rain. Badly needed although most things have been doing surprisingly well so far without any rain in a long time…. More rain hopefully to come in the next few days - but that will bring on lots of weeds too undoubtedly :-(

Man, floral and rosaprimula. I remember an earlier thread with info on your gargantuan snails/slugs. Ewwwwww! Can you break out some white wine and cook them?