Mid Summer Bits and Bobs.

[retropants]

my greenhouse registered 56.5/133.7 yesterday, but there's only succulents & cacti in there, and they are loving it! Last year the peppers didn't enjoy so much heat, so they're outside this year.

[oldherbaceous]

Four regulars on the Forum at the same time, must be a record for a long while…..three nice ones and me…

[Shallot Man]

Clive. Meant to add I to was in the R.A.S.C [Fire Service branch ]

[tigerburnie]

40 degrees in the greenhouse, been sowing some late spring cabbage seeds, a bit late, but they've more chance growing in compost than they have left in the packet.......................

[Stephen]

I use a siphon to empty the bath onto the flower beds,

How very well organised Retro. My bathroom is in the middle of the house and windowless, it would require a decent length of hose to reach a useful point.

[Cider Boys]

It certainly is hot, my courgettes are suffering along with most vegetables in this dry period. I hurt my back (again) three weeks ago lifting a trapped ewe over a fence and this has resulted in the weeds taking hold. My back is a bit less sore now so I am trying to carefully hoe and pull the weeds but I won't be doing much in this heat. I just hope that we get some rain to fill my water butts.

Barney

[Cider Boys]

At last it is now raining here, but for how long? Let's hope it persists and spreads to all your areas.

Barney

[Geoff]

Well that was a weird afternoon, heat wave crashed down from 34.9°C at 2:20 to 24.6°C at 4:20, now it's creeping back up.

I noticed Somerset cricket stopped.

[oldherbaceous]

Evening Barney, sorry to here you are suffering with your back, it really does make everything a lot harder to do, so I hope it soon improves a lot more for you!
Well Woburn recorded 40c today and here in Milton Bryan we are normally a little hotter…we had a strongest breeze with it, what has burnt a lot of leaves on different plants, but mainly the courgettes, marrows and the beans.
Still no rain though….

[Westi]

Had an apology from mother nature with a wee shower this evening at home. Not heavy, but persistent & for about 10 - 15mins! Just hope it also visited the allotment or I shall have quite a long water as the soil will be capped with the temp. I just hope there is no one down so I can do a thorough water up & back down again.

I expect most of the lettuce will have bolted, the sweetcorn should have been happy, wasps probably have found Plum Beauty which is laden this year, but what I don't want to see is the one cauliflower that evaded the rat invasion bolted, but it is really tiny & in partial shade so finger crossed. Just a very pleasant 23C expected tomorrow.

[Colin2016]

Biggest issue with the high temp for me is the dog, she was flaked out for hours yesterday afternoon on concrete out of the sun with a cool a draft. At night she pants so much it is such worry, trying to get here to cool down with wetting here belly and paws.

[Primrose]

Such a joy this morning to feel a cooler breeze coming through the bedroom windows.
I suspect resillience to heat is possibly an age thing. When I was younger I could sit out or garden in hot temperatures without being affected. As you get older one's resilience to outside influences unfortunately seems to become less reliable.

I suspect the next new growth market will be in all things which make higher temperatures more bearable.

[oldherbaceous]

Morning Colin2016, I found putting a hot water bottle in the freezer, until well chilled is a big help….normally gives them about 3 hours of coolness, if they will lay next to it, that is!

Got a seriously spinning head this morning…..heat related I would think….

[Primrose]

Take care OH. One of the early signs of heat exhaustion I suspect.

[retropants]

Got a seriously spinning head this morning…..heat related I would think….

I felt the same this morning, had to 'sleep' on the sofa, upstairs was over 32 degrees. I suspect I'll be nodding off after dinner this eve.

Ohh, I forgot to add, I saw a snake yesterday, first time ever! Was curled up in the drive at my brother's house, I was waiting in for the gas man!! I ran in to get my phone to take a pic and when I came back out, it had vanished. Pretty sure it was a grass snake.