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Blazing June??????
More like flipping June!
12°, wet windy, overcast, and cold as March!
Garden veg plot is weeks behind, and the met office said its the warmest spring since the mid 1800s!!!!!!
Who are they kidding?
Anyone get what they mean, or are we just being fed more cow poo?
Do they realy think the general public are so stupid?
I think they meant winter, as realy it never got realy as cold as it used to, even only a few years ago. Have they offered a correction?
I'm flipping freezing today, and having to get my winter gear out and wrap up in woollens.
Veg is going to be even more expensive as the farmers are saying strawberries are two weeks behind and not ripening, and stuff just isn't growing well, where they have been able to plant, after the flood damage to land, and late planting.
Hot water bottles and winter pj's at night in June. In southern uk. How mad is that?
More like flipping June!
12°, wet windy, overcast, and cold as March!
Garden veg plot is weeks behind, and the met office said its the warmest spring since the mid 1800s!!!!!!
Who are they kidding?
Anyone get what they mean, or are we just being fed more cow poo?
Do they realy think the general public are so stupid?
I think they meant winter, as realy it never got realy as cold as it used to, even only a few years ago. Have they offered a correction?
I'm flipping freezing today, and having to get my winter gear out and wrap up in woollens.
Veg is going to be even more expensive as the farmers are saying strawberries are two weeks behind and not ripening, and stuff just isn't growing well, where they have been able to plant, after the flood damage to land, and late planting.
Hot water bottles and winter pj's at night in June. In southern uk. How mad is that?
Me too.
I dug out a hot water bottle last week, and I've been using it.
I'm not supposed to get suntanned so I bought the UV protective sleeves, they're still in the packet. I'm still wearing cardigans over my frocks.
Found Son2 rooting through the linen cupboard last night for an extra quilt too.
The stuff in the garden seems to be a little slow but it's not bad. Fruit's ripening nicely, that sort of thing, lots of bees around, just that it's cold, especially for June.
I dug out a hot water bottle last week, and I've been using it.
I'm not supposed to get suntanned so I bought the UV protective sleeves, they're still in the packet. I'm still wearing cardigans over my frocks.
Found Son2 rooting through the linen cupboard last night for an extra quilt too.
The stuff in the garden seems to be a little slow but it's not bad. Fruit's ripening nicely, that sort of thing, lots of bees around, just that it's cold, especially for June.
I lit the woodstove the night before last. The excuse was to smoke out the bees in the chimney as per advice but the warmth was welcome.
Here in West Sussex its absolutely peeing down with strong wind blowing it sideways, and cold too.
I’ve got an oil filled rad in the hall and turned it on this morning and wheeled it into the bathroom before my shower this morning. Summer solstice next weekend
I’ve got an oil filled rad in the hall and turned it on this morning and wheeled it into the bathroom before my shower this morning. Summer solstice next weekend
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Up near Wick it's been a glorious clear day but still a chill wind. However, the forecast is now torrential rain tomorrow
Had my spring/autumn top on today.
Been wet and windy and only about 13 C. According to my photo logs, this time last year was double the temp, dry, sunny and calm. But since last July it's rained most days in the west.
The winter was warm* and wet, but late spring hasn't been warm. The wet has meant that the first hay cut has been done around here, but equally my overwintering shrubs and strawberries are still in the greenhouse........
*compared to seasonal norm
GC
Been wet and windy and only about 13 C. According to my photo logs, this time last year was double the temp, dry, sunny and calm. But since last July it's rained most days in the west.
The winter was warm* and wet, but late spring hasn't been warm. The wet has meant that the first hay cut has been done around here, but equally my overwintering shrubs and strawberries are still in the greenhouse........
*compared to seasonal norm
GC
Wet, windy, and chilly down here today too - like someone flipped a switch around half past seven this morning to turn it all on. It strongly reminded both myself and The Old Man of many a summer holiday down here in years gone by, and his memory goes back to the 1940s. Speaking of which, June 80 years ago was famously none too great either. So it goes.
We have had to stop scything for hay this week at the project. It's been too cold and wet, and no sun and warmth to cure it. Only done about a quarter of the field so far. Still over an acre to go.
Wish we had a motorised mower, as we could have done it all last week. The joys of using old ways and manpower!..(or woman power)
Hope we have a good spell before the end of the month or we will be down on hay this winter. The grass is growing well, just no decent windows to cut and cure.
Wish we had a motorised mower, as we could have done it all last week. The joys of using old ways and manpower!..(or woman power)
Hope we have a good spell before the end of the month or we will be down on hay this winter. The grass is growing well, just no decent windows to cut and cure.
That heatwave was amazing! We got up to 21°yesterday (according to my weather app. Tho you could have fooled me. )
Today is presently 15° and the next 7 days won't be much more than 18° at best.
grey skies all week so far, and this afternoon was wet grey and miserable.
My veg are a disaster, peas grew no more than 6 inches, despite being climbers that should be at the top of the canes, and I've had 6 tiny pods, with about 4 peas in each. Most have now given up the ghost, and courgettes are growing weird shapes , rotting before they are more than 3 inches long, and dropping off the plant. Apple tree is apple less, not a single one. Gooseberries were so tiny that a whole bush came to two handfuls.
No bees, butterflies or sparrows, the normal background sounds and sights to my garden. It's silent, apart from the horrible raucous cawing of rooks or crows, whose population has exploded this year, evenings are like a scene from the birds horror movie!
I'm feeling sad, and un nerved The silence during the day is spooky, The rooks settling flight in the evening into trees a few yards away is also very unsettling. Never bothered me before, but it feels weird.!
Today is presently 15° and the next 7 days won't be much more than 18° at best.
grey skies all week so far, and this afternoon was wet grey and miserable.
My veg are a disaster, peas grew no more than 6 inches, despite being climbers that should be at the top of the canes, and I've had 6 tiny pods, with about 4 peas in each. Most have now given up the ghost, and courgettes are growing weird shapes , rotting before they are more than 3 inches long, and dropping off the plant. Apple tree is apple less, not a single one. Gooseberries were so tiny that a whole bush came to two handfuls.
No bees, butterflies or sparrows, the normal background sounds and sights to my garden. It's silent, apart from the horrible raucous cawing of rooks or crows, whose population has exploded this year, evenings are like a scene from the birds horror movie!
I'm feeling sad, and un nerved The silence during the day is spooky, The rooks settling flight in the evening into trees a few yards away is also very unsettling. Never bothered me before, but it feels weird.!
After an unsually cold, grey & wet may & june, we too had a mini heatwave this week with temperatures in the mid 30s (°C),today though, things have cooled down a little with a high of 29°C expected, it is still sunny but thunderstorms are forecast for tommorrow.
We can forget tomatoes this year, the plants just haven't grown.
We can forget tomatoes this year, the plants just haven't grown.
Won't be much consolation to your surrounding feelings, but down south Devon there are quite a few sparrows in our area, they seem quite happy with themselves. We saw quite a few bees a few weeks ago (or a couple months?) on our lavender and fox gloves.... but yeh, not all hope is lost!
I am somewhat surprised @Woody girl , in West Wales its been similar weather but this year LOADS of sparrows at the new place, nests in the usual places in workshop plus they have taken up residence in the swift boxes we installed, the first brood raised and flown already, and a second brood just hatched. The local buzzard pair is doing fine, heard the cuckoos and woodpecker as usual, the shallows arrived and the barn owl nest across the lane has 3 chick's surviving out of four. Loads of bugs and bees around and toads also.
Has something else (land use wise) changed local to you? If anything, the warm wet winter and mild damp spring has been good to the bugs and birds in west Wales, and the flora is going nuts.
GC
Just had a thought. Are you using any compost or manure brought in from outside your garden?
There's some types of herbicide are long lasting and survive composting. Also if animals eat the treated grass, their manure contains it. Twisted stunted courgettes sounds rather like herbicide damage so......
These days I will only use manure where I know the animals that produced it have not been fed on hay or grass treated with herbicide. Thankfully I have a couple of sources at the new place, otherwise use organic chicken manure pellets which are usually OK.
Aminopyralid, chloropyralid and pychloram are the offending substances (mainly the first two).
Here's a link to the Organic Growers Alliance about it: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjW-b_Y1oGHAxUnU0EAHSglCBcQFnoECB4QAQ&url=https://organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/aminopyralid-the-herbicide-that-hasnt-gone-away/&usg=AOvVaw3kKD6v-cTVEezf1AOy0tIr&opi=89978449
GC
It's wet again.
Actualy on flood alert for our local river. Had to paddle into town today to go and get the milk. Its foul out there.!
The washing is dripping over the bath as it can't go outside, and I'm trying to learn how to crochet, as I can't get on with finishing tidying the garden. I knew it was a race against time before the rain started, but I still have a long way to go and finish off. My garden helper is in Spain for two weeks,( jammy person!)
So I've been struggling away on my own. Hey ho. I just wish he'd cut the grass as promised before he went, but he busted his mower, so it never got done.
By the time he gets back and it dries out enough to get done, I'll have a tribe of hellarwe's living there!
Hellarwe's are are tribe of pigmies who live in long grass. The run around, jumping up as high as they can, every so often, to try and see where they are, shouting ...."where the hellarewe?"
Actualy on flood alert for our local river. Had to paddle into town today to go and get the milk. Its foul out there.!
The washing is dripping over the bath as it can't go outside, and I'm trying to learn how to crochet, as I can't get on with finishing tidying the garden. I knew it was a race against time before the rain started, but I still have a long way to go and finish off. My garden helper is in Spain for two weeks,( jammy person!)
So I've been struggling away on my own. Hey ho. I just wish he'd cut the grass as promised before he went, but he busted his mower, so it never got done.
By the time he gets back and it dries out enough to get done, I'll have a tribe of hellarwe's living there!
Hellarwe's are are tribe of pigmies who live in long grass. The run around, jumping up as high as they can, every so often, to try and see where they are, shouting ...."where the hellarewe?"
Sorry WG this rain is my fault.
I always try to get my annual hedge cut and mowing done before the wet sets in. I used to start at the end of October.
It’s crept earlier over the last five years as I’ve tried to beat it.
This year I thought bugger it and started in the last days of September. This weather is the result.
I got the biggest hedge trimmed yesterday in the drizzle. There is an added frisson when using mains powered machinery in wet weather!
Just the usual trim!
I always try to get my annual hedge cut and mowing done before the wet sets in. I used to start at the end of October.
It’s crept earlier over the last five years as I’ve tried to beat it.
This year I thought bugger it and started in the last days of September. This weather is the result.
I got the biggest hedge trimmed yesterday in the drizzle. There is an added frisson when using mains powered machinery in wet weather!
Just the usual trim!
No, it's my fault - I hired a tracked flail mower for three days to cut back the growth on the rides through the wood. The forecast was fine when I booked the machine and changed the night before it was delivered. Luckily, I got the job done in two days because today has been a constant deluge. The water is running down the track past the Barn (our house) like a river
