Tuesday wasn't very good for July. It was dull all day without any hint of sunshine with light rain at times throughout the day. It was cool with the thermometer just managing 15°C.
Quickly looking at the month’s weather statistics it’s been a wet month as I’m sure everybody is already aware. In the end we had 106.4mm (4.2”) which is 2½ times our normal amount for July.
Temperature wise it’s been a cold month with an average temperature of 15.5°C which is 1.8°C above and 4.2°C below the coldest and hottest July’s in the last 100 years.
It’s also been another poor month for sunshine as the chart below shows.
We've had a couple of very poor months in a row for sunshine with June only producing around half the amount we might expect and July maybe two thirds. Perhaps August will improve things.
Despite the poor weather we made an afternoon visit to the plot, mainly to water the greenhouse tomatoes. We managed to pick our first few French beans “Tendergreen” and our courgettes had plenty of small fruits to pick especially our free seeds of “Tondo di Piacenza”. Is this the start of our usual courgette glut? At one time I didn’t think we were going to have any courgettes at all let alone a glut.
Our full list of harvesting in July can be found here.
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