We've had a most peculiar gardening year this year. Not only have we had the cold months of April and May to contend with but also a very strange pattern of rainfall. April was very dry, one of the driest months of the last 12 years for us. By the end of April, the allotment was so dry digging over beds was put on hold waiting for some rain.
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| Dry Ground 26 April 2021 |
Then May arrived and it turned out wet and we got far more rain than we needed and digging over beds went on hold this time because the ground was too wet.
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| May's Rainfall 104.2mm (4.1in) |
The continuous days of rain abated towards the end of May and normal gardening returned for a week or so, once beds dried out a little bit. We spent a couple of busy weeks getting beds filled up with crops, that had been patiently waiting at home to be planted out.
However, so far we've had only 15.6mm of rainfall in June and the ground is once again very dry. Today's rain has amounted to 4.0mm, better than nothing, but I don't think it's going to penetrate very far into the ground.
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| June's Rainfall 15.6mm (0.6in) |
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much rainfall in the forecast over the next week and temperatures are looking above average as we move into July. It looks like we will be busy with our watering cans at the allotment.
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