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Coldest September Night

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:September 28, 2020
Post category:Cold weather / Weather

We left the allotment at about 17:30 on Sunday afternoon. It had been a dull and chilly afternoon even for late September. However, in the hour or so before we…

Unusually Calm

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:September 22, 2020
Post category:Weather

At breakfast time on Monday the sky was blue and normally at this time of year that a sign that we’ve probably just had a cold night. I decided to…

Growing Winter Onions Two Different Ways

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:September 19, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Onions

All through the gardening year, it’s been difficult to know if we’d be able to find some compost, plants or seeds for the allotment. This was true when I was…

Another Short Lived Hot Spell

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:September 17, 2020
Post category:Hot weather / Weather

All through this year, we’ve had the occasional day or couple of days of very warm weather. The last couple of days have been very warm and it’s probably the…

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