Grateful rather than cheerful that the jet stream didn't move sooner. A few days of this heat is more than enough!
Indeed! My reason to be cheerful - it will be cooler next week! (Thought I'd got through a whole summer without a ghastly heatwave. Sept rolls autumn into view and ... pow! Not happy.)
That's my RBTC too @ViewAhead . The forecast says it's due to be cooler on Tuesday, which is my birthday and in my mind that's the start of Autumn. It's not supposed to be this 'orrible sticky hot stuff. Those who like it are welcome to keep it to themselves!!
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Like it hot,but not much hotter than the current 33C, but really don't like it sticky and humid like it is just now - really uncomfortable for gardening, even just pruning and dead-heading.
However, the house is reasonably cool if we keep the shutters down so I can catch up on some sewing and think about what to sow when it gets cooler and we've had some rain. Optimisitic gardener here.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It's raining - the first for over two weeks. Absolutely bucketing down with thunder rumbling in the distance. I don't think it'll last for long, but hopefully it'll cool the air down a bit. Rained off from gardening but I was only making a half-hearted attempt to tidy up the "corner of shame" where all the plant pots were heaped up, so I don't really mind.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I’ve just watered all the containers and then left the sprinkler on the veg patch to water the area where the courgettes and tomatoes are planted out. Somehow i got soaked .., it was very nice 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It only rained for about half an hour, but that put 7mm in the gauge so it will have given the garden a decent watering, like having a sprinkler on for an hour or so. I might just have stood outside in the rain for a few minutes!
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Another RTBC, I did get back outside and finished tidying up the corner of shame. Pots now stacked by size and shape (square/round/square top round bottom). It probably won't stay tidy for long though .
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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However, the house is reasonably cool if we keep the shutters down so I can catch up on some sewing and think about what to sow when it gets cooler and we've had some rain. Optimisitic gardener here.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yeah