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Title: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: bennettsleg on March 31, 2006, 10:51:52
Just checked the weather reports for the next week on: http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/uk.html

Hertfordshire area: -1C on Monday night.  All those seed trays are going to clutter up the kitchen again and resume their wonky growing ways.

Check out your area - just in case.  Would hate everyone's hard work & patience to be killed off.
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: supersprout on March 31, 2006, 11:13:02
Metcheck agrees - and has fetching pics of snow and blizzards next week too :-[ :'(  Maybe the fleece will go on patooties and seedbed this weekend after all ::)
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: sarah on March 31, 2006, 11:22:18
Its maddening. Its driving me craaazy. My little brassicas are so leggy and my tatties are threatening to grow leaves.  It'll come right on the end though,must have patience.  My spare room is heaving with stuff, am considering relocating my allotment there.
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: bennettsleg on March 31, 2006, 12:04:21
Quote from: sarah on March 31, 2006, 11:22:18
my tatties are threatening to grow leaves. 
Mine already are! Was going to plant them this weekend. Will they be alright underground? I'm loathe to leave them out longer or they'll start growing the new spuds in thin air!
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: busy_lizzie on March 31, 2006, 12:50:35
Same here on the North East coast.  Horrible drizzly day today and Spring although made a slight appearance for a few days this week, we still seem to be struggling.  This time last year my potatoes were in and we had done so much more on the plot. busy_lizzie
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: Amazin on March 31, 2006, 22:29:30
According to Metcheck, Central London's going to be -2 on Tuesday night and -3 on Wednesday night.
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: Roy Bham UK on March 31, 2006, 22:35:42
Most of my plastic seed labels I kept from last year have April dates on them so what is all the fuss about ::) relax it's only a commercial, ;D  I'm thinking about sowing seeds next weekend.

Although I hope April stays warm ;D
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: Hyacinth on March 31, 2006, 23:20:08
Quote from: Roy Bham UK on March 31, 2006, 22:35:42
Most of my plastic seed labels I kept from last year have April dates on them so what is all the fuss about ::) relax it's only a commercial, ;D 

Agreed, Roy, it's true! But oh! somehow this winter's seemed sooooooo long somehow.......the last few weeks of bitterly cold weather has seemed to go on forever.

Still, I really hope I can get things moving in the garden this w/end - at least my 'early' potatoes in????? Please???
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: grawrc on March 31, 2006, 23:39:12
I think it's because they said it was going to be an awful winter, we braced ourselves and nothing happened. Then about mid January it began to deteriorate.
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: RSJK on April 01, 2006, 20:34:53
Well I think this winter as just been how they used to be about 20 to 30 years ago, then we could expect frosts until the end of May, and it was all ways sods law when you could get onto the ground to plant it.

  Must be global WARMING
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: grawrc on April 01, 2006, 21:38:09
Come on Richard ! none of us had heard of global warming 30 years ago! ::)
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: tim on April 02, 2006, 10:37:28
Do go steady with putting eveything out just because the sun is shining.

Just look at Wednesday! (Cotswolds)
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: MrsKP on April 09, 2006, 15:44:21
Ridiculous weather.  It's snowing now on a Sun day too !

:o
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: grawrc on April 09, 2006, 16:00:23
I was planting asparagus crowns in a tshirt earlier, then came home to snow.
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: lorna on April 09, 2006, 16:02:05
Crikey Mrs KP. Snow???? This morning we had bright blue skies and lots of sunshine but was quite a cold wind. Then about an hour ago we had big hailstones for about 20mins, just overcast now..BTW we have only had one day when it snowed and that didn't settle much.
Regards Lorna
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: supersprout on April 09, 2006, 16:02:19
Bet they looked cute in that t shirt, awww ;D
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: grawrc on April 09, 2006, 16:07:38
Kind of.. ;D ;D
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: RSJK on April 09, 2006, 16:12:19
Great morning here got 3 rows of lettuce sown and half a dozen rows of spring onions, came home for dinner and to spend the rest of the day in my garden at home ( wife says its beginning to look like steptoes yard) and not been able to do a thing rain and hail all afternoon.
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: MrsKP on April 09, 2006, 16:20:26
that's what i thought Lorna.  first of all i thought i had a bad case of dandruff as i was digging the flower bed  ;D

we had bright sun this morning as well and yesterday the mini-greenhouse reached over 30 degrees.  :o

the weather's just being silly now!

;D


Edit:  the sun is back with a vengence now and the roof of the shed is steaming !  I've seen it all now.   ;D
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: Curryandchips on April 09, 2006, 17:01:18
I visited the plot this afternoon in order to plant my last row of desiree, and a row of salsify. It started raining which didnt really bother me, then got a lot colder, and the rain turned to hail. My hands became numb, it was that cold. I finished my tasks and returned home, taking my tray of cape gooseberries with me as they look very glum.
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: grawrc on April 09, 2006, 17:03:34
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)
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: katynewbie on April 09, 2006, 17:56:39
>:(

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
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: busy_lizzie on April 09, 2006, 20:01:58
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
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: grawrc on April 09, 2006, 20:04:56
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. ::) ::)
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: amphibian on April 10, 2006, 07:21:56
We have 6" of snow in Tunbridge Wells this morning  :o
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: MrsKP on April 10, 2006, 07:30:03
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
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: grawrc on April 10, 2006, 08:47:56
I like the notion of a birthbath! ;) ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: amphibian on April 10, 2006, 09:15:38
Quote from: MrsKP on April 10, 2006, 07:30:03
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 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4894934.stm)
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: Hyacinth on April 10, 2006, 09:25:29
Quote from: grawrc on April 10, 2006, 08:47:56
I like the notion of a birthbath! ;) ;D ;D ;D

Is this the multi-tasking jacuzzi, then,  you reckon ???
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: amanda21 on April 10, 2006, 10:18:06
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!!   :-\
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: MrsKP on April 10, 2006, 18:31:27
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
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: Hyacinth on April 10, 2006, 18:54:48
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....
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: grawrc on April 10, 2006, 19:16:07
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.
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: katynewbie on April 10, 2006, 22:48:05
>:(

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
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: MrsKP on April 11, 2006, 07:42:53
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.

:-\
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: RSJK on April 11, 2006, 08:33:35
No warm weather until the Daffs have finished flowering...is one of the old sayings

                                ??? ???
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: MrsKP on April 11, 2006, 08:38:50
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
Title: Re: Will this flamin' weather ever end?
Post by: amphibian on April 11, 2006, 21:18:24
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.