Rainfall certainly does make a difference to a garden that has been surviving on tapwater for a week or so. I think the nitrogen that comes naturally with the rain must give it a boost. But, also, the lawn feed, weeder, moss-killer (Evergreen Complete) that I put down last week must have made an enormous difference too. The heavy rain we had all yesterday must have washed it into the grass's roots good and proper!
There is still a small problem of clover though which is a resistant little survivor of a plant. Ok if you want a lawn of clover but I don't. I think it will have to be cut out with a sharp knife as the clover lays quite flat, under the mower's blades, and spreads by way of tough little runners. Some people actually have lawns of clover although I am not sure if they always realise it!
The hanging baskets have taken to the rain and I have pierced the black plastic in places for fear the plants might drown. I always pierce my hanging baskets two or three inches up from the bottom so that water forms a well inside. This is naturally drawn up by capillary action when the baskets get a bit dry. The plants benefit from that, of course.
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