It seems ages ago now but it was only just over a week ago when it was too hot to do any gardening. Now our greenhouse has gone from needing watering twice a day to watering every couple of days. The temperature’s dropped considerably and it feels more like early spring than summer.
I don’t think plants know what to make of it either. They’re baking hot and dry one day to wet, cold and windy the next. Visits to the allotment have been limited. We’ve just had a flying visit to harvest a few bits and pieces.
Sunday was the worst of the windy weather. We decided not to bother visiting the allotment in the gale force winds deciding we might as well visit on Monday when the winds have eased and check on any damage. Oddly Sunday was the sunniest day of the month or more accurately it was the first time in the month the sun actually decided to show itself. However, it was the windiest July day I’ve recorded with the highest wind gust of 27 mph easily passing the previous highest of 23mph on 08 July 2016.
I’m expecting the wind to have given our cardoons a battering. At the end of June, they were looking at their best and just about to come into flower but I not very hopeful that they will have survived Sunday’s gale force winds intact.
Other than damaging the cardoons I’m expecting that it will have blown the environmesh off the brassicas. It’s not been held down anticipating the gale force winds more associated with the middle of winter. Hopefully, everything else will have survived without too much damage.
