Sunday was our wettest day since the end of July. Not that we had any great amount of rain 10.8mm (0.43in) all together but it almost doubled this month's rainfall which now stands at 23.2mm or 0.91in. The month's previous rainfall has all come in small amounts which don't do any good as far as watering the garden or allotment are concerned.
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| Temperature & Rainfall Details for 22 September 2019 |
The morning rainfall came as heavy showers with the first one setting a record for this year as the heaviest rainfall of the year at 90mm/hr or 3.54in/hr. Fortunately it only lasted for a few minutes.
Hopefully, there will have been enough rainfall for us to make a start at digging over a few empty beds on the allotment.
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| Plots 41 & 42 |
Most of our potatoes were dug up at the end of August and the ground was very dry and didn't dig over very well at all so we decided to leave digging over empty beds until we got some decent rainfall.
The fruit season on the allotment has almost come to an end now. It began with rhubarb followed by strawberries, gooseberries, tayberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, raspberries, blueberries, plums, greengages and finally apples and pears which we harvested during the week.
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| Egremont Russet |
We've still a few more apples to pick but that will hopefully be completed this week, the only problem will be finding somewhere to store them. Normally, the final fruit of the season to be harvested would be our quinces but this year we've had a crop failure with our Meeches Prolific failing to live up to its name and not producing any fruits at all.
Our remaining brassicas, carrots and parsnips will all remain in the ground over winter and be harvested as required. The carrots and parsnips will be covered with straw to protect them from the worst of any frosts and to help lifting them should any spells of prolonged cold weather occur through winter. Autumn has arrived!
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Ah ... lovely, lovely rain. It is predicted to have a 50% chance of rain later this week here. I don't expect any but it is wonderful to know that it is now predicted some where. Soon. (And a dusting of snow in the Sierras. Whoopee.)
ReplyDeleteHopefully, no snow just yet for us. Another wet day for us on Tuesday 3/4in by late afternoon and it's still raining. Shouldn't have to do any more watering at the allotment this year. After a dry start to the month it could well finish up around average with more rain forecast over the last few days of the month. We might be wanting to export some if it continues! At least our forecast was correct - this time.
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