It is dawning on me that, although we had a poor summer, there is not going to be a compensatory extension. Septembers wind and rain has arrived and there is no going back. When I say poor I mean OK up until mid July and then wet cold and sometimes windy thereafter. Some crops fared well, particularly blueberries, but others took forever to get started (tomatoes, runner beans and squashes) and then got battered by the wind as soon as they did. Everyone's sweetcorn was very late and probably will not ripen - I still harbour hopes. It was warm and wet enough for the blight to sweep through our site in August. If I needed confirmation that the weather pattern has been atypical it has been provided by the wisteria which has decided it has been through a winter and it is now time to flower. It makes a start contrast to the rowan berries:
Our magnolia flowered again in August confused by the weather. We've somehow avoided the rain just had cool and windy. Watering brassicas on the allotment today would you believe! Our summer temperature doesn't appear too bad but it's a case of lots of cool days offset by a few very hot ones. I don't think we'll get any sweetcorn this year and our winter squashes have been a disaster as well.
ReplyDelete"lots of cool days offset by a few very hot ones" Yes, that is the story of this summer.
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