After some lovely warm sunny days it’s suddenly turned much colder. The overnight temperature fell to -1.3°C (29.7°F) in the early hours of Tuesday morning. It’s just as well I haven’t got any tender plants growing in the greenhouse.
We haven’t visited the allotment for several days now. The weather has continued dry with no rain to speak of since the middle of March. The onion and shallot sets planted a week or so ago probably need a drink but I don’t particularly like watering if there’s a chance of overnight frosts. The forecast is for a couple of cold nights before the temperature warms up a little bit.
I’ll have to start thinking about sowing some tomato seeds along with a few other vegetable seeds which require sowing now we’re into the middle of April.
Opinion at the moment is that the lockdown will continue for another three weeks at least. That means we’ll be keeping visits to the allotment to an absolute minimum.
