Poor Weather for Gardeners

The weather models aren't predicting any good growing weather for the next week to ten days. All the models are suggesting that a Scandinavian high pressure will control our weather over this period, bringing us north to north easterly winds.

As you can see from my April weather station records this has been the case for the last six days. Daytime temperatures have remained below average for early April but because we've had cloudy conditions night time temperatures have been around average or slightly above.

Skies have remained cloudy for most of the day. On Monday there were a few fleeting glimpses of sunshine and Tuesday morning has started a little bit brighter. The big gardening decision is whether to start sowing any seeds. At the moment I'm contemplating sowing some brassica seeds in the greenhouse but I'm going to leave sowing our carrot and parsnip seeds for some warmer weather. Any sunshine will soon lift the greenhouse temperature, but I want to avoid sowing carrots and parsnips into cold ground at the allotment.

These tulips provided some welcome colour on the allotment on a cold dull April afternoon.

Copyright: Original post from A Gardener's Weather Diary http://ossettweather.blogspot.co.uk/ author M Garrett