I'm not in any rush to get any more sowing or planting done down on the allotment. After all the temptation, with a very mild February and a mild March, now the main growing season is underway it's turned colder. I think the ground could do to warm up a little bit more before we think about sowing any seeds outside.
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It's been a cold start to April, with the average temperature for the month now the same as February's and below March. At the moment the forecast suggests a couple of milder days before cooler weather returns early next week. Hopefully, we will get the remainder of our onion sets and shallots planted out over the next couple of days, but I'll see how the weather turns out before getting more of our potatoes planted.
Our cold frame is now full, mostly with soft fruit, plants are either hardening off or growing on before they are planted out at the allotment. This year we are replacing our main strawberry bed and planting up a new row of raspberries. Our new raspberry canes are still in the greenhouse as the cold frame is full.
On a bitterly cold day last week, we set about preparing for our new raspberries. The supports are set up and the ground covered with weed control fabric and wood chippings so once the canes have sprouted we will be able to get them planted.
It wasn't all gardening though, we found time to photograph a steam charter train at Woodlesford station. The train was travelling from Carnforth to the Wensleydale Railway.
Hopefully, the weather will be better than forecast next week, and we'll be able to get some planting done at the allotment.
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You are a wise owl.
ReplyDeleteThanks for not adding wise old owl. The weather models suggest a Scandinavian high pressure is setting up for the next couple of weeks which results in us getting either easterly or north easterly winds. Not particularly cold but they drag in cloudy weather off the North Sea which keep daytime temperatures down but night times frost free.
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