Post #4222402

This is interesting. It’s so dry here that you can see the extent of a trees main root system. Under the shade of the tree, but not under the canopy, the grass is long, quite lush and green. It is getting dried out and it is failing slowly with the drought. Closer to the tree and under the canopy, the grass is shorter, drier and dying off faster . Note that is hasn’t rained for months so this isn’t a rain shelter thing and it hasn’t been grazed oddly. The whole field was harrowed and fertilised and up until a couple of weeks ago this wasn’t visible. The tree itself remains in leaf, but it is already dropping beech nuts. The very dry area is where the sheep have been so it has been grazed hard. They’re already on the winter hay so it’s going to be a long winter.