You'll know if you follow our blog posts that, thanks to Adobe, we can no longer manage our web sites. They didn't give us any notice, just pay up £40 each month or we are cutting you off as of yesterday. We've been hard at work since then finding an alternative. However, as I'm writing this post I'm unable to see any of the photos I've uploaded to Blogger. All I can see is a no entry sign. Is it something I've done or is it a blogger issue? So my pictures will be done by guesswork today!
Anyhow, as we move into the second half of the month April might manage two records by the time we get to the end. Firstly there’s the lack of rainfall. The driest month I’ve recorded was April 2011 with just 2.4mm (0.09in) of rain. So far this month we’ve had a meager 0.8mm (0.03in) giving us a chance of this month becoming the driest of the last eleven years. That would be quite remarkable as February this year was the wettest month of the last eleven years. Of course, it would only take one wet day to scupper that record chance. There isn’t much rain in the weather forecast for the next week to ten days. We’ll have to wait and see what happens.
It’s also been a very mild April and if the warm spell continues it could finish up being the warmest April I’ve recorded too. However, as all gardeners will be aware at this time of the year it’s the coldest temperatures that we need to be aware of.
At the allotment, the new tender shoots on our buddleias have been caught by the frost earlier this week.
Some of the new shoots on our Tulameen raspberries have been caught by Jack Frost too.
Each year we go through a spell of weather with overnight frosts when all the fruit blossom is at its best. Our quince is the last of our tree fruit to flower and some of the earlier flower buds are beginning to open.
Hopefully, if we’re lucky that will be the last frost we get this spring.
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It's a Blogger problem. They are aware of it. Don't mess with it; it's not on your computer. I have it, too.
ReplyDeleteBlogger help says: Wait for any updates from the Team. Sit back and relax. No timeframe given.
Hi Jane. Thanks for the info. Spent most of the day messing with Wordpress sorting out our new website. We are getting there. Isn’t computing wonderful!
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