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Busy Time Harvesting

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:September 13, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Potatoes

How time flies. I hadn’t realised how long it had been since my last post. That’s partly because there’s been nothing particularly unusual with the weather during the first part…

Kohl Rabi - Ballot

Too hot for digging potatoes!

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:August 11, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Dry weather / Hot weather / Potatoes

We went to the allotment this afternoon (Monday) with the intention of digging up the rest of our trial potatoes. At home it didn’t seem all that hot but once…

Temperature & Rainfall Records 09 July to 08 August 2020

Equal Hottest August Day!

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:August 8, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Hot weather / Potatoes / Weather

Friday's afternoon temperature reached 31.2°C equalling our record high temperature for August. It equaled our highest August temperature set last year on 26 August 2019. This week we dug up…

Potato - Ulster Prince

A Potato Blunder!

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:June 29, 2020
Post category:Hot weather / Potatoes / Weather

It’s been a variable week with some very hot days in the middle of the week before ending the week with some cool, showery and windy conditions. In the middle…

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