It’s taken a while to get there but this October has now become the second wettest I’ve recorded in the last eleven years. The total has now reached 74.2mm (2.9in) still some way short of last year’s 106.0mm (4.2in) which is easily the wettest October I’ve recorded.
Temperature-wise too this October is following a similar pattern to last year in that we are having another cool October. The average temperature for the month currently stands at 9.9°C or 49.8°F dropping this year into the bottom three of the last eleven years.
Most of this month’s rainfall has come in the form of showers rather than prolonged spells of heavy rain. The rainfall over the last week has probably been enough to make the ground at the allotment too wet to do any more winter digging.
We managed to clear this bed of its summer crops of runner beans and courgettes this week. We managed to dig over the ground but it was right on the limit of being too wet.
However, we’ve made much better progress than last year when virtually all our tidying up and digging over beds was left until the spring because of that very wet October.
The plot is now taking on a very autumnal look. The weather forecast is for a very wet and windy weekend.
