May 2020 – Page 2 – Ossett Weather and Gardening Site

After The Frosts

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:May 17, 2020
Post category:Broad Beans / Dahlias / Weather

We should now have seen the last of any frost for this spring. The forecast is for a couple of very warm days next Wednesday and Thursday before cooling down…

Lockdown Day 53 – Our Latest Late Frost Ever?

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:May 15, 2020
Post category:Fruit / Weather

We've had a series of very cold nights for the second week of May. The coldest early morning occurred on Thursday when the temperature fell to -0.4°C or 31.3°F. As…

Lockdown Day 50 – “Ne’er cast a clout ’til May be out!

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:May 12, 2020
Post category:Weather

There’s a very old English proverb “Ne'er cast a clout 'til May be out! The proverb can be traced as far back as 1732. Clout is an old English word…

Lockdown Day 47 – Gardeners’ World – Was It From Last Year?

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:May 9, 2020
Post category:Weather

We watched Gardeners' World last night and we were amazed to see Monty Don in his garden with the rain pouring down. Monty explained how it had rained all night…

Martyn & Susan Garrett

Sometime in the 1980’s we looked into taking on an allotment. We already had a vegetable patch in our garden but we wanted to grow more of everything - vegetables and flowers - and just didn’t have the space. At that time it was fairly easy to obtain an allotment quickly and we took on a plot on Green Lane as this was the nearest site to us with vacant plots. We set to work on the plot under the watchful eye of existing allotmenteers who were no doubt taking bets on how long we would last. The plot had been ploughed by the council which was a mixed blessing.


	Temperature °C		Temperature °F
	High	Low	High	Low
Jan	13.8	-0.6	56.8	30.9
Feb	12.9	-1.8	55.2	28.8
Mar	19.5	-2.6	67.1	27.3
Apr	22.7	-1.3	72.9	29.7
May	29.3	-0.4	84.7	31.3	84.74	31.28
Jun	29.9	4.6	85.8	40.3	85.82	40.28
Jul	34.2	8.7	93.6	47.7	93.56	47.66
Aug	31.2	3.9	88.2	39.0	88.16	39.02
Sep	27.7	2.5	81.9	36.5	81.86	36.5
Oct	17.9	2.2	64.2	36.0	64.22	35.96
Nov	17.4	-2.1	63.3	28.2	63.32	28.22
Dec	13.3	-1.9	55.9	28.6	55.94	28.5800


	Rainfall
	mm	inches
Jan	33.6	1.3339
Feb	168.2	6.6775
Mar	30.0	1.191
Apr	8.0	0.3176
May	5.8	0.2303	0.2303
Jun	68.2	2.7075	2.7075
Jul	61.6	2.4	2.4455
Aug	65.8	2.4	2.6123
Sep	26.4	1.0	1.0481
Oct	76.2	3.0	3.0251
Nov	29.4	1.2	1.1672
Dec	82.4	3.3	3.2713