Northerners!

[zazen999]

Hi - how you doing?

I've just spent a couple of fabulous days in Northumberland and Edinburgh. Weather fantastic.

So what's all this nonsense about it being harder to grow veg up here? Warmer here than Cornwall. Are you making things up?

Southerners - you have all been victims of a massive hoax. Don't believe a word of it!

[Incy]

Lol Zazen, it is unseasonably warm just now. You definitely chose your dates well Hope you've enjoyed your trip

[VirginVegGrower]

Are you deliberately trying to give Aberdeen Plotter a heartattack? Naughty provocative girlie xxx Pleased you're lovinitlovinitlovinit! Hope you didn't scrumptious Scotland dry?!

[zazen999]

Lol Zazen, it is unseasonably warm just now. You definitely chose your dates well Hope you've enjoyed your trip

Yeah right.....so you say [it's a ruse I tell you]

[snohare]

So what's all this nonsense about it being harder to grow veg up here? Warmer here than Cornwall.

GRRRRRR !


You want to grow butternut squash or sweet potatoes up here, just you come up and try it in my garden. Hell, tomatoes would be an achievement !

But be warned, you might not get home for the snowdrifts...

[zazen999]

GRRRRRR !


You want to grow butternut squash or sweet potatoes up here, just you come up and try it in my garden. Hell, tomatoes would be an achievement !

But be warned, you might not get home for the snowdrifts...

Sweltering when I was up there; I didn't see any snow, drifting or otherwise...

[snohare]

Yeah, funnily enough the two hottest days this "summer" that I have experienced were 26C in April, and 25C yesterday ! We had some hot sunny days midsummer, but August would've given you the lie...everything just stopped growing.

When I read all these posts of Grapes harvesting tomatoes, more tomatoes, and yet more tomatoes, all ripe and grown outdoors, that's when I really know the difference between your climate and ours. You guys are usually sticking broadies into the ground and harvesting potatoes six weeks before I would think of it - although that gap differs from year to year.
On the plus side though, we don't have so many Sassenachs up here.

[zazen999]

Yup, broadies like it cooler; all that heat wilts them. poor things.

[bearded bloke]

Vote Zaz for ............. GYO "international" goodwill envoy

[taff]

guess what snohare? I'm off to harvest some tomatoes later. From outside.

MWAHHHAAAHAHHAAHAAAAA.....evil horror movie laugh...

[snohare]

That's all right Taff.
We're sending you some of our lovely weather...enjoy ! <Mutley snigger>

[snohare]

Yup, broadies like it cooler

Yes, that would explain why the ones I sowed late in the summer have been doing so well !

It could be worse. I could be up in Shetland, where even as we speak the sun is probably setting on a windswept, kaleblasted garden...

[Pies]

Dont forget they have fewer pests and less mildew than us lot down south.

[snohare]

Fewer pests yes, we don't seem to get the same swarms of greenfly that you do - but less mildew ? I wonder...there is certainly plenty of moulds going about, and given that we now seem to be having weeks at a time where each day has not only hot sun but also one or two showers of rain a day, pretty near regular as clockwork, I'd say the chances of blight are way up for us. We don't seem to have the same long, hot, dry spells that you folks mention, where there is no rain at all...
That'll be because we don't pay as much Council Tax as you guys I suppose !

[Dead Dogs]

Northumberland and Edinburgh, north??

No No No! There're south, most definitely south