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Living on a hillside, I’m fortunately not in danger of being flooded, but it doesn’t mean I’m not feeling the effects of the recent heavy rains. It’s difficult to walk around my sloping garden without slipping over, and the grassed areas have turned

Has anybody set up a system for collecting water from the gutter of a metal greenhouse. The problem is setting up the downpipe to a small square gutter end. Chris Dennison. I used an old bit of plastic guttering and tied it to the squared end and secured with duck tape-all sound ...

of the unbelievable quantities of rain that are making it impossible to garden, and in some instances positively treacherous to even walk.I skidded for over a metre across some wet grass the other week. My neck still clunks every time I turn my head, as if I had

I know that gardeners in other areas of the country have been blessed with proper, sustained downpours, but no such luck here. My only experience of rain in recent weeks was during a (very enjoyable) visit to Garden Show Ireland at Hillsborough

when growing during a drought most people store water and water there plants by hand. so what is you your solution for growing during a year with to much rain to get good results. Since so many claim to much rain was the reason they got poor results

in the ground and have untangled the lanky plants too long in the conservatory and tied them in, but i bet the seeds I am popping in the soil beside them will give better plants and a higher yield. The rain will come. Not much in the way of rain in Essex

sky above. If we get our heads together we can work out which plants love all this rain, if not I'll meet you round the back and we can use that wood, which was supposed to be at the allotment today, to start building an ark. What's doing well where

Seem to remember that when the leaves on garlic are affected after heavy rain that you are supposed to dig them up, can anybody confirm? According to Monty Don, dig up your garlic when the leaves start to die down. I have also lost about 150 garlic

where there is no risk of flooding, the extent of the damage to my house and garden is incredible. My current pride and joy (as it is every March) is the display of daffodils on the drive leading up to my house. The rain and wind have flattened my daffs

Where have all the flowers gone? Why did it have to happen now? Just as I had been lulled in to a false sense of security the heavens opened again. There's been enough rain to fill all of my water butts several times over and the ground is now a