The weekend didn't live up to its billing when it was predicted that Sunday would be our hottest day of the year. It wasn't and that hottest day of the year now stretches back to 24 April when the temperature reached 24.6°C or 76.3°F.
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| Temperature Records for 2019 |
What we actually got was a mild day with a strong to gale force breeze blowing, not what was required when young climbing French beans and runners beans have just been planted out.
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| Sunday Afternoon at the Allotment |
You can see from the photograph it's not the sort of sky you expect from a day forecast to be the hottest day of the year. To make matters worse those dark clouds didn't produce any showers either.
It didn't stop us from making progress on the plot though with lots of sowing seeds, planting out and protecting crops taking place. Sue covered our progress on the plot last week in her blog post that you can read here.
We do seem to have missed any rain which has been around for the last few days. Whilst a wet day would stop progress on the plot, it would probably save us time in the long run not having to water newly sown seeds and young transplanted plants in order to get them established. Our weather forecast seems to always state that showers or rain will occur in the next few days which magically never materialise. Our forecast rainfall total over the next five days is around the 30mm or 1.2in mark which would ease our watering worries for a while.
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Annoying about the lack of rain. I would start building an ark!
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