Weather or not...

[Baldy]

I'm an atheist - but thank God / Mother Earth for today's rain/hail/snow - I was worried that the quagmire at the plot was in danger of drying out.

Will it ever end????

[Can the Man]

snow on the poly tunnel

[Mark Rand]

Didn't have any rain at all today, but it was alright. When I pottered across the litle lawn to see if any of the October sown perennial daisies were thinking of flowering, the lawn squelched in a most satisfying manner. It also looks as if all that pesky grass stuff might be being out-competed by the pretty moss plants.

[mcdood]

Blue skies and sunshine first thing this morning. I'm going to venture to the allotment in a bit to see if I can see some soil and hopefully sow some stuff.

[Snoop Puss]

Mr Snoop and I were looking at the coronavirus news. "At least we can grow our own vegetables", he says. To which I reply "Yes, but I need a bigger patch."

The fields are still a quagmire. Impossible to walk in them as you get sucked in to the mud. Some areas are still several inches deep in water. More is due this week.

Going to have to take serious measures. Bulldozer to make an entire raised veg patch is currently the preferred option. Quicker, cheaper and easier for me to maintain than raised beds. Plus, quite like what they would originally have had here, though all done by hand in their case rather than machine.

[Snadger]

Its the flaming wind that's doing my head in. No sleep last night because of rattling slates on the roof.

The wet and snow I can live with as I know it will eventually dissipate

[Babru]

Yup, it's been sooooo windy here for weeks. Edinburgh is a windy place, and I live by the sea, but it's been ridiculous. Blowing a gale again here last night and today.

[annie8]

Yes am so fed up of it now. Got my hopes up yesterday because it was dry and a little bit sunny, well until late afternoon, but back to miserable and rain today. Just had a soggy dog plod round the park which is like a quagmire. Ground in the garden and raised beds is sodden and the top soil I got weeks ago is still sitting in clods. Need it to dry a bit before I can spread it. Really could do with cleaning and tidyig my greenhouse but cant face it.

[greenishfing]

My plot has got standing water at the moment and looks thoroughly neglected. Every time the rain pauses the wind takes over.

[quanglewangle]

Take heart - summer will come...

The wind is very trying, but it does dry the ground out.

We've had 35kt (F8) in the night but it dropped during in the morning. The steady wind is now down to 25k but there are occasional 40kt gusts.

The good news is that the sun is up for longer each day and is higher in the sky. The pesky jet stream can't stop that. We had our first 9 mol photon m^-2 day yesterday (tomatoes need 20!). It's been banging along around 6 or 7.

Notice higher peaks and generally more green on the attached light-level graphs. (The little shoulder on the left each day is the miserable supplementary lighting that comes on about 04:30)

[Snoop Puss]

Goodness, QW (hope you don't mind me calling you that, saves a lot of typing and retyping!), that's very technical.

[veggiechicken]

I don't understand a word of qw's post (apart from "good news" and "sun") but its most impressive. Just wondering how I can slip this into conversation ..........

"We had our first 9 mol photon m-2 day yesterday".

[quanglewangle]

I don't understand a word of qw's post (apart from "good news" and "sun") but its most impressive. Just wondering how I can slip this into conversation ..........

"We had our first 9 mol photon m-2 day yesterday".

Photosynthesis is a quantum process, driven by photons and there are Avogadro's number of photons in each mol .... Oh, never mind - it's getting brighter, for longer, each day.

[veggiechicken]

That last sentence............I understand that.
I'm trying to grow Avocados. I'll post some photons.

[Bren In Pots]

Its the flaming wind that's doing my head in. No sleep last night because of rattling slates on the roof.

The wet and snow I can live with as I know it will eventually dissipate

Snadger its the wind howling in the chimneys that I don't like, its a constant background noise.