Topic: Will this flamin' weather ever end?

[grawrc]

Awww! Bet they weren't as glum as my poor baby carrots that got hit by marble sized hailstones the other day! (they're recovering by the way)

[katynewbie]

>:(

Went up to the new plot last night, just after the HUGE hailstones and major storm, and the area earmarked in my minds eye for onions was waterlogged. When I say that I mean it was a small swimming pool!!

Note to self...put drainage in before allowing my lovely onions anywhere near it!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

[busy_lizzie]

We keep trying to get our main crop onions in but the weather has been so dire still haven't managed it.  I am hoping it cheers up next week as we are supposed to  be putting our potatoes in next Sunday and it is still bitterly cold and frosty here.  >:( busy_lizzie

[grawrc]

Looking out the window at the peaceful evening as dusk begins to fall. All is still. The western sun is still lighting up the hills. The sky is clear and blue. Looks like frost tonight. ::) ::)

[amphibian]

We have 6" of snow in Tunbridge Wells this morning  :o

[MrsKP]

YOU WHAT ?   :o :o :o

My Dad (who's in Swanley) was shocked to hear I had snow yesterday.  That'll teach him to laugh. 

I can see ice on the birthbath but a beautiful clear blue sky.  Must remember to open the greenhouses before I go to work.

Trust me to pick this as my first growing season.  If the weather doesn't know what it's up to, how am i suppose to  ;D

[grawrc]

I like the notion of a birthbath! ;) ;D ;D ;D

[amphibian]

YOU WHAT ?   :o :o :o

My Dad (who's in Swanley) was shocked to hear I had snow yesterday.  That'll teach him to laugh. 

I can see ice on the birthbath but a beautiful clear blue sky.  Must remember to open the greenhouses before I go to work.

Trust me to pick this as my first growing season.  If the weather doesn't know what it's up to, how am i suppose to  ;D

BBC story

[Hyacinth]

I like the notion of a birthbath! ;) ;D ;D ;D

Is this the multi-tasking jacuzzi, then,  you reckon ???

[amanda21]

MRS KP - I'm with you - first season and getting more and more confused as the month goes on!!  Frost, snow, hail - I felt warmer up on the plot in January!!   :-\

[MrsKP]

a) it was early
b) my eyes were closed
c) my fingers hadn't caught up with my brain yet
d) i should proof read better

anyone of the above option hold true.

mind you, it would take the pain away, you'd not feel a thing up to your waist in ice water  :o :P ;D

[Hyacinth]

Well here in S. Brum it's been a beaut of a day - and warm enough for both the birds an me to enjoy your jacuzzi, KayPee 8)

I was working in a client's garden today......first went into my own to open up the greenhouse, about 10.....already 80 deg. in there :o & seedlings were donning their bathers....then on to the client.....widened some borders & used the turves to re-line another lawn....then got into Shed No.2 (yep! it's that sort of garden ;).......'my' shed I'd cleared out & got into some sort of order last week; this week the turn of the other one...dreary things in there.....paint & spanners & big black spiders...cuppa tea in the sun......back home to give my lawns the third cut of the year.

Not a bad sort of day at all, really....

[grawrc]

Gorgeous here too. All the fair weather lottie-holders (the ones that come mainly to drink beer/ coffee/ whatever) were out in force marvelling at their wonderful crops of weeds.
[BTW Was there not some French obstetrician in the 80's who advocated the birthing pool for natural stress-free birth?And what did he know? >:(]

I had to open the greenhouse door to let my lettuces cool down. They were waving their fans like mad when I arrived and asking for smelling salts.

Then cleared the weeds round the raspberries just as planned and realised I forgot to prune the summer ones last year. Oh well better late than never although it could mean no raspberrries this year if I get it wrong. :o

Working in tshirt again. Tonight is more overcast than yesterday so I hope it won't freeze.

[katynewbie]

>:(

Harrummmmphhhh

At work all day when it was gorgeous outside. Tomorrow is my day off, guess what the forecast says?

Bloody RAIN, RAIN and more RAIN

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[MrsKP]

batten down the tin hatches this morning, blowing a gale and throwing it down.  lost a fleece off one the lillies and repositioned the big pots round the "kite" greenhouses.

But the runner bean trellis is still holding (just wait until there's some plants up them and i'm sure they'll fly, and the polytunnel cloches are still in place.  Lishka, the milk bottles are holding well on the cold-frame lids.

Am truely fed up with this now, more so as i'll be worrying about the garden all day at work.

 :-\

[RSJK]

No warm weather until the Daffs have finished flowering...is one of the old sayings

                                ??? ???

[MrsKP]

i'd settle for less extreme ....... but i guess that's the modern (global warming) way.

i guess it's just a matter of preparing for all eventualities.  roll on the heatwave this afternoon.

 ;D

[amphibian]

We have had 8" of precipitation in 3 days, mostly snow, and I feel very sorry for my neighbour at the allotments. Our plot lies along a spring line and a spring has sprung in the middle of his plot (I found a culverted spring in mine last month). His new spring is currently outflowing at about a litre a second and has cut a riverbed through his plot as it runs off down the slope. I hope for his sake it dries when the water subsides.

Our area is crazy at the moment, the snow has downed trees all over the place, and the ground is absolutely sodden.