{"id":1648,"date":"2020-07-06T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2020-07-06T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:57:04","slug":"whats-happened-to-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/whats-happened-to-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Happened to Summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1648\" class=\"elementor elementor-1648\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-10e5b16 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"10e5b16\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b09976\" data-id=\"1b09976\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ebfcc8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4ebfcc8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>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\u2019s dropped considerably and it feels more like early spring than summer.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>I don\u2019t think plants know what to make of it either. They\u2019re baking hot and dry one day to wet, cold and windy the next. Visits to the allotment have been limited. We\u2019ve just had a flying visit to harvest a few bits and pieces.\u00a0<\/div><div><figure id=\"attachment_1647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1647\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1647\" src=\"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-wind-speeds-1024x319.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-wind-speeds-1024x319.png 1024w, https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-wind-speeds-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-wind-speeds-768x240.png 768w, https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-wind-speeds-1536x479.png 1536w, https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-wind-speeds.png 1750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temperature &amp; High Wind Gust Records for 05 July 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><div>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&#8217;ve recorded with the highest wind gust of 27 mph easily passing the previous highest of 23mph on 08 July 2016.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/div><div class=\"separator\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1646\" src=\"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-06-20-solstice-plot-tour-with-ruby_Moment-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-06-20-solstice-plot-tour-with-ruby_Moment-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020-06-20-solstice-plot-tour-with-ruby_Moment-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div><div><div>I&#8217;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&#8217;s gale force winds intact.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>Other than damaging the cardoons I&#8217;m expecting that it will have blown the environmesh off the brassicas. It&#8217;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.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s dropped considerably and it feels more like early spring than summer.\u00a0I don\u2019t think 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