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this season is a real problem, no two days of warmth following each other, one day roasting hot , the next cold enough to need jumpers then warm again. it is having a bad effect on the plants being grown, our pepper/chilli plants In the greenhouse are 6ins taller now than when I potted them on over 8 weeks ago, they would usually be 3ft+ now but as they get chilled every night this year they are 8-10ins tall and all the outdoor crops are 6-7 weeks behind as well, the rate they are growing I could be having new tatties and veg by Christmas, and that's only if this summer actually takes off, we had warmer weather in feb/march and it doesn't seem to want to change at all, its been so cold at night that all my greenhouse peach crop have just dropped off, one by one so we have none left now, global warming, don't make me laugh, its getting colder each summer, the last good summer here was 2006...
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Oh dear Buffs...doesn't sound at all good for you does it
Fingers crossed for an Indian Summer for you.
I suppose the only upside at the moment is you're very unlikely to be getting blight in the near future?
Keep with it mate...something will finally flourish
"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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Global waming has two sides, the side that gets "temporarily " hotter and the side that just goes down and down and it seeems that your neck of the woods.
On the bright side though your sprouts must be doing ok ? ;:Comment
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Weather is really good in England, heat wave every summer.Comment
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Max temp in potting shed over 40*C, minimum 9*C - poor little plants, don't know whether they're coming or going.Comment
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after waiting for the forecast heatwave over the weekend, it arrived, that rain was actually warmer than usual but it has poured down, bring back 2006 summer even if just for a week....Comment
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been out to check the blackcurrants and they are ignoring the weather by producing what appears to be a bumper crop and they are taking on their ripe colour, so all is not lost, we will get some lovely flavoured ice cream after all and we have just finished last years best..Comment
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The really hot wednesday we had a couple of weeks ago, over 35C, did something nasty to one of my blackcurrants and three of my gooseberries, It was as if they got cooked, and then the bush decided to eject 75% of the fruit onto the ground.
Still, the overall currant crop has been pretty good, even with the mole damage to roots causing limb die-off on some bushes. I might have enough in the freezer to last the next 12 months!Comment
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its the freezer where most of my produce ends up to keep us supplied for the winter, blackcurrants and gooseberries look to be a great crop and I think the raspberries I looked at today seem to like this cold summer and if they all ripen we will get (judging from previous years) roughly somewhere in excess of last years 11.5lbs, we got some strong sambucus plants today so we will be enjoying elderberry wine soon enough, literally no room to put anything else into the garden now, or at least I don't think so....Originally posted by Speed Gardener View PostComment
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Despite temperatures up and down stuff coming along slowly. Had my first peaches 2 weeks ago and have a good crop of toms but not getting ripe.
That is the beauty of living in gods country ????
BobComment
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we picked half of the blackcurrants today,7 x 2ltr ice cream tubs and now converted into 20 odd jars of jam, the rest will be picked next week and will be ice cream, mousse and fool, next week will probably be the start of the goosegogs season which will also become jams, ice cream etc, followed by the first of the raspberrries getting the same treatment, then the blueberries, followed by the same for the rhubarb,we will soon have the coffin (freezer @ 6ft long and 3ft high and3ft deep) well stocked up and the first ever crop of apricots are nearly ready in the back greenhouse, all 11 of them as we had to be away at the pollination time and it was all down to our local band of bumbles.....Comment
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