Our poor July weather is continuing with more windy and showery weather. It would be more accurate to label today’s strong winds as gale force. The peak gust speeds today reached 24mph which would have been the highest I’ve recorded in July except that this year on 05 July we managed a peak wind speed of 27mph. We’ve had less windy weather in named storms through winter.
We made a trip down to the allotment. I wanted to turn over some beds with the cultivator ready for more crops to be planted.
These two beds on plot 42, cleared of peas and early brassicas, dug over very nicely ready for some new crops. The plan is for some Safari French beans to fill one bed and we’ve still to decide what to plant in the other bed.
In the gale force wind and a cool temperature, it felt very autumnal. Getting the beds dug over incorporated several dashes to the shed to avoid the worst of the showers.
It wasn’t the coldest daytime temperature of this July as that is held by 09 July, when the temperature only made it up to 12.8°C (55.0°F), which if you haven’t already guessed is the coldest daytime temperature I’ve recorded in July.
It’s going to be a close run thing between July 2012 and 2020 for the coolest I’ve recorded but with Friday forecast to be a scorcher July 2012 may just hold onto the record.
At least the gale force winds didn’t blow all the fruit from the trees and Sue picked some nice Oullins Gage plums along with a few other bits and pieces so we didn’t return home empty handed.
