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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Sprout on May 16, 2006, 15:03:46
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I don't know how accurate it is, but metcheck.com are predicting temperatures in my area to fall to -2 in the early morning of Tuesday 23 May.
Beware and protect your delicates.
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Thank you sprout, we are bracing ourselves here and will make sure all our delicates are snuggled up in fleece for the next three weeks!
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And where might that be then sprout?
I take it you are 'oop north' somewhere.
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Nottingham is not 'oop north' . It is slap bang in the Midlands!
Thanks Sprout, we do not normally put tenderish stuff out until 1st of June anyway.
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Nottingham is not 'oop north' . It is slap bang in the Midlands!
Thanks Sprout, we do not normally put tenderish stuff out until 1st of June anyway.
Its 'oop north' to me down here in Dorset. Sorry.
That said the way things are going this spring we'll be getting the same even down here by the end f the month!
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Yes, thanks - 1C with us - a very sudden drop?
By the way - sorry that I have used 'Sprout' for a lady member - that will be put right in future.
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Just had a look. Nothing for tues day but metcheck forecast for early hours of wednesday shows a low of +1c and sleet!
The greenhourse is chocka, but looks like the tender stuff i have put outside in pots will have to squeeze back in again that night
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It's gonna be an interesting time because due to the hot days of last week my beans germinated extra fast and are already getting too big for their pots and could do with planting out sooner rather than later
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Not sure about the weather here but I'd expect it to get cold (never is much else apart from cold really)
It's been raining for days too, finally stopped earlier today. At least the garden and lottie won't need watered, although I do have 4 rather miserable looking and very muddy horses!!!! Plus a goat who'd managed to get himself stuck in a large bale of hay.......... I'm sure I read somewhere that goats are supposed to be intelligent!
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Looks like we've got +1 and sleet Wed am too! I haven't planted anything tender out yet but everything is more than ready - I was hoping for next week but may hold off a little longer if I can - lets hope it all changes before then!
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Better hold off putting in my mange tout then for a little longer
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harumph and grrr! :(
glad i got my fleece at the ready!
if anyone is short of fleece-1mx6m=£1-poundland....
kitty
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Sold out at our Poundland, Kitty :(
Wouldn't worry too much as yet, I've never seen forecasts change so much as they do on Metcheck. No-one is reliable past 3 or 4 days anyway.
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Well, I was very worried then and had a looksie at metcheck as I have runners and toms and alsorts out, but we don't seem to be forecast to go much below 8'c. Mind you, I have some protection over my tenderest plants. Come on, where is summer!!
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;D I agree with R of the H ;D Metcheck changes like the weather ;D
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Hello from not so sunny Derby, Not put out any of the tender stuff like sweet corn yet, but many plot holders have, I too wait for June. Mangetout aren't that delicate esp not things like Oregon Sugar Pod!
;D
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Metcheck is one of the most unreliable of the lot
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Metcheck is one of the most unreliable of the lot
Strange, as I have found it very reliable... maybe it depends on how far from a met office you live? I am pretty close...
mat
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I am very, very close but still find it pretty poor
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Metcheck have been showing a cold night in Nottingham two weeks away for ages, Every time I check it's still two weeks away.
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Sounds about right
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Amazing difference in temperature to last week when it was gorgeous. Was raining and cold again today, after torrential rain on Sunday night and most of Monday. OH has actually put his courgettes out despite my dire warnings, - two have gone so far. I sowed some more seed just in case he lost more and thankfully my seedlings are all up and looking perky. Just when I thought I couldn't get anything else in my greenhouse, it is now even more chocka block as well as our cold frame, - just waiting for when I can put things out safely. busy_lizzie
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It wasn't too bad here today, a bit overcast but t-shirt weather for the 7 hours I spent at the plot
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as others have pointed out its way off and a total false alarm. not gonna get that cold
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Reports of metcheck being unreliable seem to be true. A day later, they've changed their forecast from -2 to 6 degrees centigrade.
Sorry for the false alarm.
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Metcheck are forecasting overcast & wet here today, local radio have put out a sunburn warning, I'll happily settle for something in between for the first stage of operation "Homemade Polytunnel".
The best forecast is to have a look out of the window :)
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Metcheck used to be very unreliable, but I have found them to be very accurate for my area over the last two years. They revise frequently, and it is important to recheck, I do not consider these revisions to reflect innacurasies, as they are merely reporting and re-reporting their latest models, this should be expected with forecasting for anything more than a couple of days off.
I find the metoffice's single symbol for a day system as useless.
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;D Weather forecasts are laughable really ;D very often the Beeb will contradict itself just so they can be half right, check their website weather for your region then check the tv for the same region bet ones wet and tothers dry ;D
As MT says..."The best forecast is to have a look out of the window" ;D
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I learned in chat that the delicates like it 8 degrees and above, so they are still gonna get snuggled.
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Well it's glorious sun here today finally so no better time to get down the lottie and get working.
polytunnel looking good (for a first attempt) and hoping we can get some planting done in there shortly.
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Metcheck is one of the most unreliable of the lot
So who do you use intead? :)
(glad to be back - the withdrawal symptoms were awful! No forum surfing while at work either!! AARGH! ;))
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Metcheck seems fine to me, the nature of long term forecasting is that it is very unreliable, but it seems unfair to shoot the messenger ...
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never had a problem with metcheck, i find they predict rain at my weddings to the hour without fail (excpet last time it was 2 hours late! i don't think you can rely on any forcast more than 2 days away really.
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So who do you use intead?
My eyes and nose 8)
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So who do you use intead?
My eyes and nose 8)
Ahhhh, I remember those skills in the dim and distant past of my childhood. Could tell the time with out a clock too. How I miss the *really* country life, but unfortunately I needed a job and had to move into the very circle of hell (London and the M25) and am only now getting used to nature again, albeit at a commutable distance!
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I was extremely concerned about the 50 mph gale that the BBC weatherpeople were last night forecasting for Thursday and rushed out this morning to try and make my makeshift tomato shelter constructions more secure. Fortunately these gales seem to have died down over night.......still a forecast for strongish winds tomorrow but nothing like 50 mph! And the rain certainly arrived on time here at 10.30 this morning.
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Could tell the time with out a clock too
Funny that, I was just thinking the other day how amazingly accurate we can be at telling time without a clock, usually within 15 mins, sometimes a lot less, something to do with the body’s rhythms + experience I s'pose
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So who do you use intead?
My eyes and nose 8)
Ahhhh, I remember those skills in the dim and distant past of my childhood. Could tell the time with out a clock too. How I miss the *really* country life, but unfortunately I needed a job and had to move into the very circle of hell (London and the M25) and am only now getting used to nature again, albeit at a commutable distance!
I do not own a timepiece and I am rarely late, nor unsure of the time.
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I don't know which company the port of Felixstowe use for weather but I'd like to have a link to it. One of the vessel controllers a little while back warned a crane driver that he would get hit by a little squall in about an hour, and he did. Only lasted a few mins but was good enough for us to stop work. I'd imaging info like that would cost a few pennies.
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I use uk.weather.com and metcheck, then look out the window!
:-[
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I rely on metcheck and as I said before; it is generally very good. One day at work I advised some guys working for me, to ensure they returned the servers my project had used, to the factory before 12:00 as it was due to start raining then... they looked at me with a strange look. It started raining at 11:55... I had an even stranger look then! I admitted I looked at the forecast ;D Last week it was due to start raining at around 18:00. It was a beautiful sunny day and people thought me pessimistic... It clouded over late pm and at 5.20 it POURED!!!
Okay, metcheck may not always get it completly right, but I have found most of the time they do. Certainly far more reliable than the online BBC and ITV forcasts which were next to useless.
mat
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like amphibian i dont wear a watch-dont need to-everyone in the western hemisphere wears one and as sandy wilton said-i've gorra tongue in me 'ead!'
as for the weather-i stick my head out of the window.
mind you-i still go out in the rain-i'm not made of sugar..... ;D
and if you stopped doing stuff in britain because of the rain you'd rarely go out!
kitty
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Sorry for wondering off topic ;D. What is it with peeps that need to know the time of day/night 24/7 ??? I am a little worried about people like this as I am one of them :o :P :(.
I have a watch, clock or time piece of some discription in every room of our house EXCEPT the loo and bathroom :-X :D
I have a digital clock on both bedside cabinets just in case I open one eye to check the time of day, that saves me the trouble of rolling over. ;D ;D ;D
Is there a name or a condition for peeps like me ??? :( maybe 'clock eyed' ::) ;D
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Time keeping is something I'm a bit weird about. I HATE knowing what the real time is. I actually set clocks wrong, and can't bear it if anyone tries to put them right. Have clock in dining room that is roughly 15 - 20 minutes fast, and another there that always says four o'clock. Bedside alarm is roughly 35 - 50 mins fast, living room clock roughly 10 mins fast. No clock in kitchen. Son has radio controlled clock and car is the same, so I tend not to look at those. Clock in another room is set to Sydney time. Clock in shed - never worked and says five and twenty past four.
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me too...don't wear watch, car clock is 2 hours and 7 mins out, shed clock wrong but I never know by how much
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;D There must be a name/condition for both of us types..."Bonkers" springs to mind ;D
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One of my brother-in-laws worked at the sorting office (PO) at London Bridge.He always had his clock set 45mins fast. For some reason one day he thought he hadn't set it as he wanted it so he added ANOTHER 45mins.He arrived at the local railway staion before the first train arrived..That cured him ;D
Personally I cannot abide my watch/clock being a minute wrong, surprising as I am retired and time doesn't really matter now,
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I hate being late, I can't stand it when the rest of my family just sort of amble along and turn up when they are ready. I'm another one who can't go to sleep without first checking the clock and first thing I do when I wake is look at the time.
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I hate being late, I can't stand it when the rest of my family just sort of amble along and turn up when they are ready. I'm another one who can't go to sleep without first checking the clock and first thing I do when I wake is look at the time.
See, I hate being late too, and I hate waiting for other people that are late. For me lateness shows a lack of respect for other people's time. Yet somehow I still don't need to check the time. I think I have a nuclear clock in my head.
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I too hate being late, but unfortunately my OH is quite the reverse and is always late - how we got together is a mystery. ;D busy_lizzie
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I hate being late too, and it really brasses me off that I can't wear a watch for long before it conks out on me. That goes for quartz, digital and mechanical watches (and probably a water-clock too, if I could get one to fit on my wrist). Someone told me that my magnetic fields are weird (d**n cheek) but I can't think of any other sensible explanation for why, in almost 60 years on this planet, I haven't managed to keep any watch going for longer than 3 weeks. The only thing which works (for now, anyway) is having a mobile phone on me at all times with the screen-saver set to a time & date read-out. . . .
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same goes for me mollybloom-i've never been able to wear a watch-when i did try it went for maybe a day at the most-then stoopped...i also get 'charged up'with static electricity very easily which someone once said it had something to do with that-i can keep a charge(and give people 'shocks' for a day....anything sets me off from a car door to a shopping trolley.
well...not strictly anything..jelly doesnt...... ;D
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Molly & Kitty. My late husband had the same problem. Years ago I bought him a Rolex watch, I took it back to the shop when it was playing up. In the end out of frustration he put a little rubber patch on the back (like we use to mend
bike punctures with) never had any more trouble. Coincidence??
Lorna
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I gave up trying to wear one because I always got a sore under it. I tried wearing one only when I was in school, and it worked for a bit, but then I lost the d**n thing. These days I use my mobile.
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but how do you balance it on your wrist robert?..........
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i have been in and out with plants for weeks now, hardening off, out all day, in at night. I have planted out a few of the flowers such as ursinia, thelesperma, rodanthe but today, i have had the plants in and out three times - the last being around 7pm when it got soooo dark i thought a massive storm was on the way. in truth, i am heartily sick of it all as it takes a good 15 mins scurrying about with trays and pots and it seems like i have been nurturing these little plants forever - in fact, i made my first sowings in January. It is alarming to see the work of months go to ruin in a moment but I ought to be used to disasters by now as they are an almost daily occurrence (todays- snails ate most of a tray of tagetes) - three months tender care is lunch for a mollusc! (are snails molluscs?)
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They are indeed. We had black clouds around all day, and I was expecting torrential showers like yesterday, but they never materialised, all we had was a bit of drizzle at times.
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Weather forecast for the week on country file this morning (sunday 21st ) said that there could be frosts as far down as the midlands this week. I seem to remember we had some late frosts in May last year that took care of a few potatoes.
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I gave up trying to wear one because I always got a sore under it. I tried wearing one only when I was in school, and it worked for a bit, but then I lost the d**n thing. These days I use my mobile.
Only wear mine foir school too - when i take it off, I am not at work.
Mansfield is not far from us but metcheck is reporting a drop to only 4oc here. Real feel goes below - is this the figure that effects plants - thought wind chill was more to do with sweaty human bods. Still, suppose I had better fleece the toms that went out (very deep) ysterday.
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I'm always aware of the time -watch or cellphone - when I work. Sheer bliss to not know the time when I'm not. Really gives the day a holiday feel :D
I'm finding metcheck a real bonus....and thanks to whoever it was who put it up on the site. I've got gardening work backlogged now and know that I can pretty well forecast the right time to turn up at a job - and the approx. time I can expect to be there before rain stops play. :D