30.3C in the shade out there ... too hot for anything ... I'm moving the sprinkler around the garden ... all the big pots have had a couple of gallons each and the washing dry as a bone.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hot and dry.............very hot for us..........mid 20's. The national weather forecaster Met Eireann has announced that we are officially having a heatwave, and have issued a yellow warning alert for outdoor workers to wear sun-screen and that people should leave water out for animals.
Stockton on Tees, When do you renew things? my thermometer is reading 74 F. that is on the back wall outside, the greenhouse one is off the range bar, i would suppose that would be around 23-4 C on new fangled things but modern is my future, I still talk in tanners and half Crowns. A long hot weekend is turning into a long hot week, having seen the time and place this would be considered cool i better not moan. frank.
Ditto @Palaisglide. 80F here, and no wind at all. It’s forecast much the same to at least next Monday. I’ve decided to focus mainly on watering our newish lawn as well as the plants, for the rest of the week!
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
ChrisWM, as long as you water early morning or in the cooler evening never during the heat of the day. A newish lawn can easily be harmed watering at the wrong time, we would take turns going out early to turn the sprinklers on the bowling green, they are even more fussy than my two lawns. Frank.
Its not just the plants that are shrivelling up! Me 2 days ago in Devon, back home now catching up on the watering again, only a long weekend away but only just about got away with it plant wise!!
Offically hotter here at the moment that it was during the heatwave of '76.......mercury has topped 30 degrees and is expected to get higher over the next couple of days. I found myself weeding the garden at 5.30 a.m. the other morning.....it was wonderful and cool....... I would recommend it if you're finding the day time temp difficult to cope with. @Allotment Boy free the feet in the heat!
I'm with you Mary370, few hours v early and v late whilst there is still some light. My thermometer says 40C in sun and 22C in shade, don't know about the 40C might just be having a heat stroke like me
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I haven't commented on here for a week or two, instead of complaining of all the rain and dull days of last winter I will now have to complain about the shortage of water. The weather is glorious every day - we can actually make plans the day before knowing that the weather will be good enough for going to the beach or some other fine day outing. We also have to plan which plants are going to be watered each day, some more than once. A heavy downpour at night would be ideal, but I am beginning to wonder when that will happen.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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@Allotment Boy free the feet in the heat!