This July keeps on setting 10 year records but they’re not the good ones. Last Sunday was our windiest July day in ten years. You’d think that one bad 10 year record was enough in any month but just a few days later on Thursday, it produced the lowest daytime July temperature in ten years with a high temperature of 12.8°C or 55.0°F. The previous lowest was on 11 July 2017 with 13.3°C or 55.9°F.
It hasn’t just been cold for July either. It hasn’t stopped raining for the last couple of days. It’s been mostly a drizzly sort of rain with bouts of more persistent rain intermingled in with it.
The water butts that collect rainwater from the garage and greenhouse are overflowing. Nothing needs regular watering outside and the greenhouse is managing two or three days without watering. The rain refills the butts before they are anything like empty.
We had plans to sow some seeds and plant out some more brassica plants but those plans are on hold at the moment.
I’m not sure the soil will be in a fit state for sowing seeds when we do eventually manage to make another visit.
