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Monday 29 April 2024
Concern shifts from wet to cold
Throughout April our concern has been the lack of anything resembling a dry spell of weather. However, the latter half of the month has been drier and the ground has been steadily improving to a state where it is fit to cultivate. The trade-off for the drier weather has been for colder weather, with daytime temperatures below average for the second half of April.
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Flexible planting plans
We still haven’t managed anything like a spell of good weather. We have to go back to the first 3 days of February for a run of 3 consecutive days without rain.
However, the good news is that drying is outpacing any new rainfall for now and the soil at the allotment is gradually becoming workable.
Monday 15 April 2024
Has it been that wet?
It almost goes without saying that if it rains a lot then we are told it’s the worst it has ever been. It seemed a very wet start to the year so I thought I’d look back at previous years and see if we’ve had wetter starts. It would be interesting to see how we dealt with wetter years than this one if indeed we’ve had a wetter start.
Monday 8 April 2024
It’s beginning to get critical
We’ve had plenty more rain through the first week of April. The amount so far is 25mm or around 1″ and about half a month’s rainfall. That wouldn’t normally be too much of a problem, but as the ground was already well saturated at the end of March, more rainfall hasn’t helped any drying out of the ground at the allotment.
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Gardening Judgement – our earlies are in
Normally at this time of the year, we try to decide on the correct timing for sowing and planting all sorts of seeds. There’s no scientific basis for the decisions it is all based on experience and some guesswork regarding the weather. February has seemed like a wet month even though rainfall has been about average. It’s due to all the rainfall coming in the form of showers resulting in some rainfall on most days.
It did set me thinking that perhaps the first three months of the year have been particularly wet but, as you can see from the charts, that’s not the case.
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