Crazy weather.

[bramble]

If i said i picked OUTDOOR tomatoes today, would anyone believe me.
I have Black Cherry and Sungold growing outdoors on a south facing wall and I am getting a good handful of ripe fruits weekly and that includes today.
I also have pots of geraniums on a north facing step and they are in full bloom.
What does this say about the weather?

[julesapple]

I've only just uprooted my tomato plants and put them on the compost. We had Black Prince and Tom thumb, both producing well up until last Monday when someone let the chickens into the wrong part of the garden and they decimated the last of the fruit. And we still had edible salad leaves in our grow bags until a fortnight ago. I had the last raspberry about two days ago.

I've still got roses blooming on a west facing wall - blooms but no leaves! A few straggly geraniums and bacopa doing quite well still in my hanging baskets.

It's just weird, so it is!

Jules

[Two_Sheds]

I noticed a couple of ripe ones on the school fence that I missed: the foliage is now all brown & dead, but the fruits are hanging on for grim death

[Headfry]

I've got outdoor Strawberries coming and they are not just little wizened things either. Honeysuckle is flowering and that field of rape (other post) is still YELLOW!
Bonkers!!!!!

[snohare]

Wait twenty years, folks. You will not believe it.
I remember reading about these changes back when the penny really began to drop re shifts in climate, in 1985. Pretty much all the predictions of the IPCC 1987 Report have come true, generally about twenty years ahead of schedule. Utterly terrifying.
The last few years, it has been like watching dominos topple...or perhaps a better analogy would be a slow motion car crash.
Heck, wait ten years...
But the good news according to the Met Office today is, the UK is forecast to be better for growing food crops; whereas most countries will fare worse, and Spain is predicted to have as much as a 97% drop in arable cropland.
Personally I think the best growing conditions will be up in the North East of Scotland, you lot dan sarf had better get double digging humus into your soil ready to cope with all those droughts waiting for you down the road...