A Gardener's Weather Diary: February 2022

Sunday 27 February 2022

The weather turned spring like for Friday and Saturday. Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin brought plenty of gale force winds and plenty of rain. There’s a chance that this February could finish up as either the wettest, windiest or mildest I’ve recorded in 13 years.

Monday 21 February 2022

After Eunice

As forecast storm Eunice followed close on the heels of Dudley. For us there was no doubting that Eunice was the worst of the two storms.

I think it’s worth pointing out here that my weather station is set up to monitor the wind speeds in our garden rather than compete with professionally set up weather stations. Hence the wind speeds I record bear no comparison to wind speeds mentioned in the mainstream media. I usually make a note when wind gusts exceed 20 mph. In summer gusts around such a speed will cause damage to plants in the garden. Fortunately, through the summer months, such wind gusts don’t occur regularly but through autumn and winter they are much more common.

Thursday 17 February 2022

Between storms

Wednesday 9 February 2022

New for this year

Over the last few weeks, we’ve gathered together most of our seed stock for the coming season. It’s mostly our tried and tested varieties that we’ve grown before and which give us a decent crop providing the weather plays fair. However, every year we try a few new varieties to see if we can find something better than our normal varieties. This year we have decided to try the following:

Friday 4 February 2022

Storms Malik and Corrie

Last weekend turned out to be a windy weekend with the arrival of storm Malik on Sunday morning. It brought with it the windiest weather for some considerable time. It certainly blew away the murky cloudy weather that had been hanging around for a few days. The highest wind gust that my weather station recorded was 40mph the highest since 11 January 2017 when a speed of 41mph was recorded. That puts it into 4th place in my highest wind gust speeds.