I posted yesterday that I was hoping for some dry weather to help dry out the ground so that it could be dug over ready for us to plant our maincrop potatoes. Well, the weather gods aren't being helpful. After a decent sort of a day up to early evening yesterday the weather went rapidly downhill and it's rained all Monday evening and through into Tuesday morning.
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| Temperature & Rainfall Records 08-10 April 2018 |
We're now up to 54.8mm for the month so far, which already amounts to almost twice our average total of 34.4mm for March and we're not half way through the month. There doesn't seem to be much chance of the plot doing much drying out this week although I've noticed the weather models are going for high pressure building next week which, if their forecasts turn out to be correct, might bring some warmer and more settled weather.
At least our coldframes at home got a bit of a spruce up on Monday with a lick of preservative.
All I need to do now is give the insides a bit of a clear out to remove the rubbish left in from last year and they'll be ready for this year's seedlings. Our broad beans and brassicas will soon be moving out of their cosy quarters in the greenhouse and into the coldframes.
I don't think that there is much difference between night time temperatures in the greenhouse and coldframe but the plants will spend a week or so acclimatising in any case before they are planted out on the plot.
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Max 5.7C here today - back to normal as you say. Your brassicas are well on!
ReplyDeleteAlmost tropical 7.1°C max here today. Rain stopped mid morning but has been replaced with drizzly misty conditions. More like a bad November or December day. Brassicas were bought in as plug plants so a bit of a cheat. I've no chance of raising such good plants so early in the season.
DeleteThat makes me feel better about my wee brassica seedlings!
DeleteYour cold frames look very nice, indeed.
ReplyDeleteWhat have we done to offend the weather gods so much?
It still seems like we're stuck in the middle of winter. Possibility of better weather next week but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe we need to sacrifice something to appease the weather gods. I'm not sure what it should be though.
DeleteAwesome update Martyn i was able to do some sowing yesterday in the greenhouse blessing to you and Sue
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