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They had a reasonable early autumn and winter but the huge lack of water since apply well in advance. There are details on my website about the various tours
has seriously effected both winter and spring sown crops. Harvesting will be a that are available – please do have a look. You can also sign up for my email
much easier time but yields of straw and grain will be lower than anticipated. This newsletter, or read more details about what I have been doing.
will mean huge losses for cereal farmers, rain in June and July was far too late to
improve either the grain or straw quality and yields. The poor straw quantity If you have an issue that you need help with, please do get in touch; email me on
produced, will be a severe loss to the livestock farmers who depend on it for winter michael.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk or contact my office on 01202 624216. You
bedding and feeding. can also follow what I’ve been doing on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Threads.
The living species that
have had a wonderful
year so far are of
course the trees of all
types. This as already
mentioned is their
ability to send roots
much deeper into the
soil where there is still a
plentiful supply of this
simple but essential
nutrient for growth, Michael Tomlinson MP LOCAL MEMBER OF
namely water.. The holds regular surgeries
tree has in the heart of PARLIAMENT
roots, trunks and branches a system of cells, known as xylem, is made of hard tube in the constituency. For
cells, which can take water from the lowest root to the highest branch or twig. This details of forthcoming
is the heartwood of the trunk. This ,hard, central hose like structures are then surgeries or to make an 
Michael.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk
covered by a softer outer layer known as phloem including the bark which is the appointment, please
dead or dyeing cells of the outer phloem. Water is carried up to the leaves where contact his office.  01202 624216
the chlorophyll, that wonderful, green organic chemical, activates the reaction
between the water and chemicals from the root system and the carbon dioxide  www.michaeltomlinson.org.uk
from air to create the organic compounds used for the growth of more leaves,
more phloem and more xylem and more trees.

All tree leaves have a wax like covering on the top side to prevent water loss, this
allows moisture to remain within the leaf to allow growth materials from the water
to remain where it has risen from the roots to the underside of the leaves to work Did you Know?
with the chemicals in that water obtained from the soils and of course the carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere. All these elements with the aid of chlorophyll Would you like to have the parish magazine delivered to your door each month
produce growth in all parts of the trees. if you live within the parishes?

Now on the third week of July we have had heavy rainfall overnight and the We have a fantastic team of volunteer distributors who undertake the
following day. Everything has changed all this worrying and the need to water the delivery of this magazine, and for just £10 a year (which is £2 less than you
garden. Both over the hill here in Turnerspuddle and in Bere Regis. the rain has would pay at the retail price and no charge for delivery), you could be included
been pouring down for the first tine for weeks. A little late for the farming
community but a great relief for the gardeners, who won’t have to water tonight on one of these rounds.
or for several nights to come. It was raining hard at seven o’clock this morning and Contact the Editor, for more information: Alison Debenham
now, at five o’clock in the afternoon it is still raining very hard.,
alison@culverdell.co.uk or 01929 471780

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