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A Week of Storms and Torrential Rain?

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:August 16, 2020
Post category:Dry weather / Hot weather / Weather

Social media posts and the news have been full of details of the hot weather, storms, and torrential rain that have been around over the last week. I've got the…

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…

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	1.3
Feb	168.2	6.7
Mar	30.0	1.2
Apr	8.0	0.3
May	5.8	0.2	0.2
Jun	68.2	2.7	2.7
Jul	61.6	2.4	2.4
Aug	65.8	2.4	2.6
Sep	26.4	1.0	1.0
Oct	76.2	3.0	3.0
Nov	29.4	1.2	1.2
Dec	82.4	3.3	3.3