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A Gardener’s Weather Diary - June week 5
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
The heat is over
Temperature normality was restored on Tuesday with a top temperature of 20°C. It was a mostly cloudy day and as usual we missed any showers or thunder storms that were reported to be around.
The plot remains very dry, I don’t expect two days of blisteringly hot weather has helped, so it seems to be lacking its usual lushness for the end of June. A result of four dry months in a row.
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Normal weather resumes
A dull day with just a little very light drizzle around lunchtime. The temperature could only manage the high teens on Wednesday a far cry from the low thirties of just a couple of days ago.
Our home greenhouse tomatoes are looking healthy but perhaps a little late in flowering and setting fruit. I’m trying Blondkopfchen for the first time. It’s producing trusses with masses of flowers but no fruit has set.
Another new variety for me is German Red Strawberry which looks like it will produce fewer tomatoes that will be rather large maybe miss-shaped fruits.
Friday, 01 July 2011
Typical
Thursday brought June to an end in typical fashion for the month. A mixture of cloud, some sunny spells and of course no rain. June is now our fourth dry month in a row. Perhaps we’re in for a wet July.
In our home greenhouse our grapes are looking good. Plenty of bunches each with lots of grapes which with some good weather should be ready for eating by the middle of August.
