The rainfall last Monday was most welcome but since then it's been dry. Not only that we've had a blustery wind and some sunny spells most days which has soon dried out the ground. So it's been necessary to resume watering duties.
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| Temperature & Rainfall Records 01-20 August 2018 |
Summer seems to be gradually fading away, or at least the heat is, but on a positive note any watering we do at the allotment lasts a bit longer.
Last week's rain has started to green up our grass paths at the allotment. The last couple of months on the plot have all been about watering and harvesting with little time for other jobs. Now there's some time to catch up it suddenly seems a bit autumnal as the job of tidying up beds from summer crops begins.
I managed to clear our early brassica bed of the old roots of cabbages, calabrese and cauliflowers. I always inspect the roots of brassica plants to see if there are any signs of clubroot. As all the varieties in this bed were clubroot resistant ones I wasn't expecting any problems and indeed there weren't any signs of the disease at all.
I managed to dig over the bed even though the ground was very dry. There are other beds that are ready to be cleared and dug over once the old pea haulms are cleared away. Our onions have been lifted and stored in boxes to finish drying off leaving another couple of beds to be dug over. I'd like a drop more rain to make digging easier before I tackle them. However, there's only the promise of showers in the next week to ten days so I might have to wait a little longer. Much cooler weather is forecast over the Bank Holiday weekend so at least our watering duties will be reduced.
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Your watering regime has been gruelling to watch. If you now install an irrigation system you could guarantee a wet year as soon as you did!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking next summer will turn out to be a really wet one.
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