Hi Frank - it's rained more or less non-stop since they cut for sileage! Don't know whether they'll bale it or not - I exect they will as the farmer who rents the field from me has now given up milking & won't need the winter keep for the dairy cows. Hasn't sown any forage maize this year either. Couldn't compete any more with the "major players" in the dairy industry ref milk prices, so is raising heifers and selling them on close to calving. Much of the land is now given over to potatoes - apparently destined already for frozen chips & someone-or-other's "crisps" factory. I was astonished to see 10 tractors working at once in one of the fields the other day. Its about 40 acres I guess - & had been ploughed a couple of weeks ago. I reckon it would have gone from deep ploughed to potato planting completed in a less than a day. Phew!
Posh verdenken Zeus, we seem to have upset him in some way. Teesside is sunny, rainy, sun with rain, rain with sun and very cold with it, my greenhouse is closed apart from some vents open for air circulation. I see no point in trying to crowd more stuff in the GH and will wait for more clement weather, I will have a later show than usual no bad thing.
We've had it all bar snow today! Hail earlier as well as lots of heavy showers & then brilliant sunshine.
I have actually had to water the troughs of fuschias & gauras that are tucked in by a wall- obviously in a rain shadow!
Have just nipped out again, before the next downpour, to close up greenhouse & coldframes, adding fleece to the big pots of dahlias in the one as cant actually close the lid!
Yes I think am about a week behind this year- combination of me, not being up to doing things, & the awful weather. J.
We had rain again but the sky is clear blue now. With the night chill closing in I've just got in from the garden after covering stuff over. I've some mouli doing really well along with peas, swede and beetroot.
Bright and cheerful looking today in the East Midlands, as long as you don't go outside! When you do it is cold, with a nasty lazy breeze that goes straight through you instead of around. In spite of the cold it is surprising to me ( an abject hater of all things cold) how many flowers are out, and how well veggies are growing. Some of them however I am too cowardly to put out - I tell myself it is for their protection, but I know the reality is that I will not spend so much time in the cold if I can help it!
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Hi Frank - it's rained more or less non-stop since they cut for sileage! Don't know whether they'll bale it or not - I exect they will as the farmer who rents the field from me has now given up milking & won't need the winter keep for the dairy cows. Hasn't sown any forage maize this year either. Couldn't compete any more with the "major players" in the dairy industry ref milk prices, so is raising heifers and selling them on close to calving. Much of the land is now given over to potatoes - apparently destined already for frozen chips & someone-or-other's "crisps" factory. I was astonished to see 10 tractors working at once in one of the fields the other day. Its about 40 acres I guess - & had been ploughed a couple of weeks ago. I reckon it would have gone from deep ploughed to potato planting completed in a less than a day. Phew!
Still grey, still chilly, still windy and still showery.
Ditto. Can't believe how cold it is. Feels like the beginning of March
Sunny spells but very chilly out of the sun in North Yorks. My seedlings have no urge to go out at all
Do not be fooled by sunshine in Kent today, its cold, its miserable and every time I venture forth, it flipping pours down.
Posh verdenken Zeus, we seem to have upset him in some way.
Teesside is sunny, rainy, sun with rain, rain with sun and very cold with it, my greenhouse is closed apart from some vents open for air circulation.
I see no point in trying to crowd more stuff in the GH and will wait for more clement weather, I will have a later show than usual no bad thing.
Frank
We've had it all bar snow today! Hail earlier as well as lots of heavy showers & then brilliant sunshine.
I have actually had to water the troughs of fuschias & gauras that are tucked in by a wall- obviously in a rain shadow!
Have just nipped out again, before the next downpour, to close up greenhouse & coldframes, adding fleece to the big pots of dahlias in the one as cant actually close the lid!
Yes I think am about a week behind this year- combination of me, not being up to doing things, & the awful weather. J.
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We had rain again but the sky is clear blue now. With the night chill closing in I've just got in from the garden after covering stuff over. I've some mouli doing really well along with peas, swede and beetroot.
Bright and cheerful looking today in the East Midlands, as long as you don't go outside! When you do it is cold, with a nasty lazy breeze that goes straight through you instead of around. In spite of the cold it is surprising to me ( an abject hater of all things cold) how many flowers are out, and how well veggies are growing. Some of them however I am too cowardly to put out - I tell myself it is for their protection, but I know the reality is that I will not spend so much time in the cold if I can help it!