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 our early potatoes, Casablanca and International Kidney. As these potatoes were dug up, I was surprised at how dry the ground had become.
It seems like we’ve had a reasonable amount of wet weather, but it’s been of the drizzly type rather than decent rain, resulting in the dry ground we’ve now got. It has now been a month since we had any decent rainfall.
It’s come at a time when we’re trying to replant some of the beds at the allotment which have been cleared of early crops. We’ve already planted some dwarf French beans Safari.
Before this latest spell of hot weather arrived we planted out some leeks received from D T Brown. They were good-sized plants and the were planted in the allotment the same day as they arrived in the post. Usually, we find we need to grow on plants from seed companies in pots at home before they’re large enough to have a chance in the allotment.
