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Scorcher Incoming

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:June 23, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Video / Weather

The next few days are set to be hot with the afternoon temperatures expected to get towards the 30°C (86.0°F) mark. Our highest temperature of the year so far is…

No Watering Required for Now!

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:June 21, 2020
Post category:Fruit / Weather

For a few days last week, the forecast was for thunderstorms during the late afternoon and evening with associated heavy showers. However, apart from one very short sharp shower on…

Temperature & Solar Energy Records for 01 -12 June 2020

Dull and Wet

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:June 13, 2020
Post category:Weather

Friday was a miserable day by any standards. It rained for most of the day putting any gardening activities on hold. By the end of the day, we'd had 13.8mm…

Still Cold – Even In June

Post author:mgarrett542
Post published:June 10, 2020
Post category:Allotment / Potatoes / Weather

Apart from the first couple of days, it's been a cold start to June. Over the last few years, only 2012 has got off to a colder start than this…

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