I’ve been busy making gardening videos and have rather neglected writing any blog posts about the weather.
So how did 2023 finish up for us? Well in general 2023 is supposed to have been the hottest, warmest year ever but in our little neck of the woods that wasn’t the case. 2023 wasn’t even the runner-up, that place went to 2014 with 2022 holding on to the number one spot and 2023 coming third equal with 2011.
You can see from the tables above that 2023 was a reasonably wet year with above average rainfall, although it must be said that it wasn’t equally distributed throughout the year.
We did venture down to the allotment this weekend but after some snow on Thursday and plenty of rain on Friday and Saturday it was too wet to do any serious gardening and we had to settle for harvesting some parsnips and leeks.
Our grass paths are extremely wet and standing in water. Walking on them now will turn them very quickly into muddy slippery paths so we need some dry weather to allow us to get on with some allotmenting.
We took Ruby for a walk in Rothwell Park on Friday and the water in the beck was flowing almost at maximum capacity and we’ve had some more rain since then.
The forecast for the coming week looks a little bit drier. We can only hope!
