Kitchen Garden Forum

Real Spring?

oh dear.....

Don't you just love weather forecasts, what's this supposed to mean:

Tuesday:
A cold day with further showers and sunny spells in between, showers easing late into the afternoon. Less windy than on Monday but still brisk. Possibly more persistent rain later. Maximum Temperature 12 °C

On reflection I suppose more rain than sun in the morning, more sun than rain in the afternoon then a really wet evening to finish off. Just about done everything I can think of under cover!

I know, Geoff, it's revolting, isn't it? My poor brassicas, planted out yesterday, are being bashed about by the wind, although I did plant them into their own little hollows. At least, they wont' be short of moisture!

The greenhouse and tunnel cloches are full to bursting ...

Still not getting our proper Spring & Summer are we?? Trying to stay upbeat but Mother Nature is not playing!

Westi

I notice we are on page 18 of this post - we seem to be still waiting.
We had very heavy hail showers yesterday . I'm glad I resisted planting out the runner beans.

today started nice and sunny then hailstones now rain I wonder what tonight will bring

Just been and checked a house i'm looking after, and fed someones chickens, and can say it is, wet, windy and cold out there this morning, YUK....

Its looking a bit brighter out towards the coast just now......not so good looking out West..and 6C on the weather station.

Clive.

i went out at 8am to pick some spinach for dh's sandwiches, and it was so cold it was almost frosty. it was very chilly indeed.

I bet Clive's out plane spotting.

I was thinking the same thing....

Geoff wrote:I bet Clive's out plane spotting.

I did spot the pair of 617 Sqn Tornado GR4 with the commemorative tail art today, arriving from the West, out of RAF Coningsby, and turning to route North as they passed us.

Clive.

As well as plane spotting....I had a knapsack on this morning and did some weed spotting....
Then, at last, I went down the Kitchen Garden and got "my" 6 rows of Parsnips sown and the Chard too. The 15 mm of rain had softened the ground that had previously gone hard and nutty and it worked down really lovely with 2 passes of the Wolf 3 tine cultivator.

The winds gone round to East now here.......

Clive.

So you missed the old stars - no concept of Lincolnshire geography I'm afraid.