What showers

Once again we missed any showers that were about. It was the sort of day that always threatened showers and indeed some drops of rain fell in the afternoon. It’s what passes as rain here these days, just a trace of dampness in the air but not enough to register on the rain gauge which means less than 0.2mm.

I’ve grabbed my web cam images, stored by Weather Underground, at noon for most days in May. Some days don’t have images I’m not sure why.

One of my set tasks this year was to tidy up behind the greenhouse to try to make better use of the space. I've managed to finish this off now so we have a new little area to grow some extra crops. The area behind the greenhouse is sheltered from the worst of the westerly wind and is a veritable sun trap at times so some normally tender crops might grow well in this sheltered spot.

More growing space

We used to have raspberry canes growing on the fence which were removed a few years ago after producing tasty crops for many years. They were being smothered out by ivy growing through the fence from our neighbour. The ivy is impossible to remove as it's rooted into the fence. On the grounds that it’s good for the birds producing lots of berries for them in winter the ivy just gets cut back each summer in a vain attempt to keep it in check. It seems that the raspberries are not that easy to remove either and suckers are continually appearing in some cases well away from their original location. I noticed that some of the canes have some ripe berries. These I suppose are raspberry weeds. I’ll have to pick these before our blackbirds spot them.

Raspberry weeds