Goodbye summer

[burnie]

Swallows have gone and the Pink Footed Geese have arrived, frost forecast for next week, eaten all the sweetcorn and the greenhouse is looking very bare now. Only bird singing is the Robin and the bees are very thin on the ground now, butterflies are still around, but not many, Tawny Owls screeching and hooting in their territorial displays.

[veggiechicken]

You should move to sunshiny South Wales where the GHs are packed to bursting with tomatoes, lots of bees on the verbena, red admirals, birdlife - its still summer here

[Lumpy]

Like you Burnie things are changing very quickly.

Leaves going brown, less bees, death of the runners and the toms (outside ones) have just about had it.

However, there is a huge amount of berries on eveything so hopefully the birds will be able to pig out before it gets really cold.

Even the slug population seems to have dwindled a bit.

[fishpond]

What Summer was that?
Winter can not be much different.
Being a soft southerner, I am used to better weather.

[Jungle Jane]

Are you starting any onions or garlic off in the greenhouse? It's nice having something to look at growing. Or some Evesham special Brussels sprouts,they give nice big plants for planting out in the spring. Theres still a bit of sun here amongst the daily rain,tomatoes & peppers still ripening,runner beans going well,don't know when my melons are ready they feel a bit hard all over still,there's sweetcorn out there I should freeze now. The birds have been eating a lot of fat balls here,fattening up as it's turning cold,I need to get more feeders,they're getting through seven balls a day mainly sparrows & starlings but I can't see much of my garden at the moment,I've made a tomato plant wall accidentally. This is my garden I used to see photo from 8th March then tomato wall taken on 5th August It's horrible when it's bare like that but nice because there's space for plants.

[Mr Bones]

Temperatures are dropping but not quite over for us yet. Just popped out to take a couple of pics, toms in the garden and aubs in the greenhouse.

[Snoop Puss]

The nights are now very cold here too. So even tough the daytime temps are OK(ish), the toms, aubergines, melons and squash are giving up the ghost. And the chickens are slowing down on the egg laying.

Still, look on the bright side, the cabbages and sprouts are starting to speed up again. Don't think anything will come of my summer purple though. Very disappointing.

[burnie]

I don't sow any seeds now until Boxing Day when the Onions go in the heated propagator, the winter is primarily for fishing, Cod, Flounder and if I'm lucky Turbot on the menu.

[Bren In Pots]

My lowest overnight temps been 8.3c so its not doing bad here, I've had lots of GH toms but I'm still waiting for my San Marzano to ripen they're very late this year.

[Baldy]

Summer you say?

Meh!!!!

[DWSmith]

High temperature here today should be in the low 90's F. Nights have been in the 60's F.

Drought still in progress. We are in the extreme drought portion on the map so we are in the worst area in the state. (And we are in the worst area of what it calls the Midwest Region.)

United States Drought Monitor > Home > State Drought Monitor

According to my rain gauge we've had less than an inch of rain since early (the beginning?) of June.

Summer is still here for me.

[rary]

sounds good DW but even with all the rain that we get here and the low temperatures, I think I prefer staying where I am, if I need a shower I just need to step out the back door, which saves me money and to heat me up I just need to ask my wife to dry me, and when she does that I hope I have a gun handy to shoot down the flying pigs

[Florence Fennel]

I must have blinked and missed it

[Snadger]

Just hope my sweetcorn ripens before we get frost!

[Kirk]

OK when was it?
I seemed to have missed it.