May 2020 – Page 3 – Ossett Weather and Gardening Site

Lockdown Day 46 – Frosted Potatoes and Warmest Day of the Year

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:May 8, 2020
Post category:Potatoes / Weather

There’s much weather talk about the possibility of a cold spell next Monday and Tuesday. Well, I’m sure it won’t be colder than the early hours of Wednesday morning. The…

Lockdown Day 43 Cold Spell Incoming?

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:May 5, 2020
Post category:Weather

I've updated my weather records for April and added them to our new website. You can find them by clicking here. May has started off a little bit on the cool…

Lockdown Day 41 – Sunday, 03 May 2020 – A New Arrival

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:May 1, 2020
Post category:Uncategorized

The rain of the last few days didn't amount to much and we missed out on any of the follow up showers meaning that the allotment and garden remain dry…

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