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A Gardener’s Weather Diary - May week 5
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Some decent weather please
Weather wise little different for Saturday. Another blustery day with occasional showers and not particularly pleasant. Perhaps June will bring some decent weather? It's "rained" at some time for 15 of the 29 days of May so far yet the garden and plot are dry.
We've had around half the anticipated rainfall for the month but it's come in such small amounts that it's not done more than wet the soil surface at the most. The months temperatures will turn out to be about average, we had warmer days in April than May and colder nights in May than April.
Our lawn still looks green despite the lack of rain - I refuse to water the lawn - but a few bare patches were in need of re-seeding. I did a test patch a few weeks ago which has grown well. I confess to having kept this small area moist to germinate the seed.
With the success of the previous patch I decided on a bit more renovation work.
Not the most exciting gardening work but a good lawn does help to set off the border.
We have our most exotic crop to date growing in the greenhouse. Our Snake Beans (sent to us by Diana from Kebun Malay Kadazan Girls) are growing well and were transplanted into more spacious containers. We've still to decide where they will spend summer, in the greenhouse or outside and also what there final container will be.
Rainfall May
Lawn repair
New lawn repair
Snake beans
Monday, 30 May 2011
Three months around the UK and World
Sunday was much the same as the previous days and to be quite frank we're ready for something different. We might just get some rain on Monday or there again maybe not.
It did set me thinking about the weather our fellow bloggers have had over the last 3 months equating to spring in the UK and autumn in other parts of the world. These are some of the weather figures I've put together using Weather Underground. As all the data is taken from personal weather stations I can't guarantee the accuracy of the figures or exact locations but I'm hoping they're not too far out.
Rain forecast for Monday morning
Weather data 01 March 2011 to 29 May 2011
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Rain at last
It rained on Monday morning. It was by no description heavy rain but it lasted all morning so it did at least add some moisture to the top few inches of soil. The afternoon was mostly dull with some late evening sunshine.
In the afternoon we visited the allotment to water the greenhouse tomatoes as we hadn't been down for a few days. As it happens we managed to harvest enough vegetables and fruit for our evening meal.
Our greenhouse potatoes are taking over. They will have come out of the greenhouse in the next few days to make way for our final planting of tomatoes. These Maris Bard and Winston potatoes were planted on the 1st April and I thought it worth a test to see if they had produced a worthwhile crop in just 2 months.
As it turned out I wasn't disappointed with a crop of just over 0.5kg. No doubt I could have left them a little longer as there was a fair number of tiny immature potatoes that were not large enough to use. I was pleased with this early very tasty crop of Maris Bard potatoes. We also harvested enough other vegetable and fruit to provide us with enough for our evening meal. A short but worth while trip to the plot.
Harvested crops 30th May 2011
Potatoes - Maris Bard
A dull holiday Monday on the plot
