It all seemed to be a bit silly at the allotment on Saturday afternoon. As it turned out Saturday became our warmest day of the year with the late afternoon temperature reaching 25.6°C or 78.1°F.
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| Temperature & Rainfall Records 08-10 May 2020 |
What were we doing during the lovely warm afternoon, getting our potatoes and strawberries protected against the possibility of some frosty mornings next week.
The strawberries have been covered with a layer of fleece and the fleece covered with environmesh which we hope will prevent damage to the fleece. This is all held down with an assortment of old timbers and bricks.
The warm weather has certainly got our potatoes growing quickly. I covered the shoots of our early potatoes, Casablanca and International Kidney, a couple of days ago but more shoots were beginning to emerge. These were covered with more soil from the compost heap. Hopefully, our potatoes will be sensible enough to keep their heads down for a few nights until the forecast late frosts have finished.
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| Early Potatoes - Casablanca & International Kidney |
It was an easy enough job to earth up our early potatoes as we don't grow them through weed control fabric. This makes digging up individual roots of potatoes a simpler process as the potatoes mature. Our other potatoes are grown through weed control fabric so simply earthing them up to provide some frost protection isn't an option. These have all been covered with some soil from the compost heap.
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| Trial Potatoes - Gemson, Maris Piper, Mayan Rose, Pentland Javelin, Sarpo Una & Ulster Prince |
It seemed very strange leaving the allotment, when it was still lovely and warm, with the strawberries under their duvet to keep them snug for a while.
Late into Saturday night, we had a short lived thunderstorm. It brought with it a drop of rain. For a short time, the rain was pretty heavy but it didn’t last long enough to be of any great benefit to our garden or allotment. The rainfall for this month has now reached 4.4mm or 0.17in.
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