The longest day!

[Peas'n'Kews]

Longest day means you can harvest yer onions! I love the "old fashioned" idea of planting on the shortest day and harvesting on the longest....

Although really its to do with onion growth being triggered by longer days and stopped again by shorter ones.

Celebrate the Summer solstice in style - dig up an onion!

[Nicos]

Ha ha ha!!!! my onion sets were planted late and their leaves are about 2" high. No sign of the set swelling yet either!

But- as you say, I will sacrifice one just to have a laaaarf!

[Uber-Uncool]

Ever the gardening optimist, or just plain naieve, I am still thinking that a proper summer is somewhere around the corner....there is still the rest of june, then july, august and september to come, and i have read on the forums of some people harvesting tomatoes as late as november last year, so who knows!

Dismayed by the weather on often a daily basis, i am, but there is still this chink of hope, dim as it may be, that the best is yet to come.

[Nicos]

Ever the gardening optimist, there is still this chink of hope, dim as it may be, that the best is yet to come.

Oh - I hope so....I really do!

I recall we had a 'flamin June' a few years ago where it rained almost every day. Thing is that I can't recall what the wearher did after that!

I vote for a 'flaming June' next year then!

[Two_Sheds]

Had a pretty nice day in Brighton on Saturday

Oh, my favourite city, anywhere. What did you see? Pub lunch, or chips on the pier?

I recall we had a 'flamin June' a few years ago where it rained almost every day.

That was 1944




"The weather was fine during most of May, but deteriorated in early June." Normandy landings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Nicos]

1944?????...I'm not THAT old I'll have you know - you cheeky young whippersnapper

[Bigmallly]

I'll be so pleased when the Longest Day has been and gone - then we can start counting the days to Ch......s

Oh yes, I love chocolates..........

[Two_Sheds]

1944?????...I'm not THAT old I'll have you know

Easy mistake, seeing as you're in Normandy an' all

[Nicos]

2007 I'll have you know!

BBC NEWS | UK | June wettest since records began

[piskieinboots]

Indian, Pakistan, Irish, Jamaican - I'm not racist, I'll take a summer from any country that cares to share it with me

[Glutton4...]

I was going to post a similar comment, Pisk! I'm so sick of it I've applied for a 'proper' job. Knowing my cr@p luck, I'll get it and then the chuffin' weather will change, and I'll have lost all my customers...

I am really, really sick of it now. I can only think of one plus point; my IBC container, attached to the garage down-pipe is FULL!

[bearded bloke]

Well the I just figured out why the weather is so confused this year & if history is anything to go by it will deffo be getting warmer & drier soon



Not sure if there will actually be a longest day/summer solstice this year though as it goes hand in glove with another annual event that has been removed from the calender this year,thus the reasoning for the above statement

!! Glastonbury has been cancelled !!

[Glutton4...]

Whoever cancelled it, should've told 'them upstairs' that we didn't need the Glasto weather this year!

[rustylady]

I recall we had a 'flamin June' a few years ago where it rained almost every day. Thing is that I can't recall what the wearher did after that!

We had snow in June in the mid 1970's. We were living in Yorkshire and driving down to Devon to visit the rellies.

[taff]

It's just rubbish...rubbish....