Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: blackbob on June 06, 2008, 22:21
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just a quick word to people about the weather next tuesday onwards.
seems like we have quite a northerly system brewing which will result in some very unseasonal temps for the time of year.
night time temps down to single figures wednesday onwards,still a lot of data to come in yet.
but i'll keep a close eye on it and let everyone know :wink: bob.
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I'll gladly trade you: it was 33C here today and very humid. The weekend is to be 31C. :pale: It was murder outside at work today.
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I'll trade you any day.
31c seems fine to me,better than 31f like we might get over here :lol:
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Don't wish for it until you've tried it :lol: It's really hard to work in.
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looks like this northerly is nailed bang on now folks,enjoy tomorrow then get the thermals on wednesday onwards :cry:
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What happened to this global warming we were promised?
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I remember living in hong kong where it was 33C from april to october and often 98% humidity, but not always raining. very draining. we used to move from shop to shop fast to get the aircon back!!
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Global Warming?
I think its a conspiracy theory!
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Global Warming?
I think its a conspiracy theory!
Don't start!!!
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Just thought it would get everyone away from the dreaded football :D
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I happen to think something is odd about the British weather this year - I have always been a weather watcher, obsessively checking out the forecasts sometimes more than once a day :roll: .
We should be having warm fronts sweeping up from the atlantic with the odd high pressure for but so far its all from a north & easterly direction which is very unusual for this time of year. Even the gale force wind from the east over the spring back holiday weekend was freakish.
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May be the global warming stopped because the council's started recycling domestic waste and only collect the bins every fortnight.
Still can't see how much help a bit of domestic waste will be with the cost of supplying non recycle-able plastic bins whose lids fly about, dangerously in the wind, after the men have taken the brick holding them in place off to empty them, the cost of treatment in carbon footprint probably exceeds creating from new.
I am in full agreement with limiting the waste on the world's natural resources but when I see some one who insists on all their food being organic, using their car for a journey, which (and I have proved it) is as quick even quicker to walk. I get just a teeny bit niggled.
As my 93 year old neighbour said, 'too many folk with not enough to do trying to make out they are doing something useful' He added 'and I am not going to stop smoking for any body'.
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I remember living in hong kong where it was 33C from april to october and often 98% humidity, but not always raining. very draining. we used to move from shop to shop fast to get the aircon back!!
this made me laugh.. we went to HK a few years ago and it was about 29C and the locals were all wearing gloves/scarfs and big coats!!! i had shorts and t-shirt and was sweating like crazy!!
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"We should be having warm fronts sweeping up from the atlantic"
I know green fingers is probably aware of this, but...
The gulf stream (which brings tropically warmed water to Britain) is slowing. That means less insulation from Britain's northerly position from the cool that comes from the north, thanks to an ever faster melting arctic circle (to do with currents and the influx of meltwater from the arctic and northern Russia, which makes it less saline and therefore harder to sink, and weakens the gulf stream accordingly). Some experts think it may even be ice free this summer, but almost definitely within the next few. It was also suggest a few years back that British average temps might drop up to a few degrees in the next couple of decades, meaning more severe winters and cooler summers.
So, according to the theory, GW won't make Britain warmer in the short term, but it will (and is) definitely shaking up the weather patterns. 'Global warming' doesn't mean 'UK warming' (at least short term) any more than 'world series baseball' means anyone else in the world plays it but Americans :)
I've been to Singapore, and compared to Queensland, the air feels so heavy. I thought the humidity was bad in Brisbane - don't know how people manage along the equator.
cheers,
Derek
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High winds and heavy rain up north tomorrow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7467236.stm
The storms - with winds which could reach 65mph across northern Britain - are expected to peak around midday.
The worst affected areas are expected to be north Wales and northern England, but Northern Ireland and southern Scotland may also be affected
Tie yer tunnels down!
Actually i think Baseball is the national game in Japan. I remember them beating the Americans in the final in an Olympics
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ok... which of you said they wanted RAIN?? I feel for my wife as she is doing a 24 hr cancer research relay at the monent and jus spoken to her and they are soaking wet.... JUNE??? though this was the start of summer!!!
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Just think of your spuds swelling. 8)
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Just think of your spuds swelling. 8)
Brings tears to me eyes! :shock:
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Just think of them slugs too......
Ok ok Im sorry :cry:
Paula
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Its the wind Im panicking about, up to 65mph tomorrow :-(
Ive already had to pick up my beloved tree fern and move it, and it hasnt been too windy today (or at least I didnt think so) My acer has been blown over too :-(
Paula
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Its 7 am. Wind picking up, but no rain - sunshine - AT THE MOMENT !!But not holding my breathe that it will stay this way. Rain yesterday wasnt as bad as forecast said, but I will be down on the lottie later with the big can of slug pellets :roll:
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Very windy here now, I've brought lots of potted stuff indoors from the garden, the rest will have to fend for itself.
Next weeks forecast looks better (so far) :roll:
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GRRR stupid weather,
I just had to put my tomatoes back in to greenhouse thingy, herbs smashed all over place because of the wind, can't believe it where's the sun gone?
Was hoping for a nice dry warm summer now its back to being like last year, absolutely rubbish :evil:
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Was down the plot this morning, trying to stand up in the wind, when there was this tremendous crack. Turned around to see a large branch from one of the 100' high trees descending onto a neighbours blackcurrants.
He'll be pleased as he's complained to the council about the safety, (or not), of the trees before, but I reckon he's got a bit of come back there.
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stuff in the garden has been flattened. Glad I put some of the toms back indoors
Not raining now though so think I'll head up the plot :D
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Glad it's not only us! :( windy windy windy.. walked in the woods with the dogs which was lovely. But noticed my hanging basket (big long type on a chain) has swung into the wall.. and scrapped off one of my hanging plants :( :( so.. i've put the flower heads in a rose bowl in the hope we'll get something out of them. :( Hubby has adjusted the basket so it's not hanging on the chain now, so hopefully it won't be so bad. :?
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WIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As I said to my OH, 'Oh golly gosh! What a jolly annoying thing it is.' And on top of that, it looks like my spuds are dying. Dash it.
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Stillwindy, raspberries need staking up, but NO RAIN, in fact very sunny and quite warm. Hope peas manage to make it through
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I want rain !
I NEED RAIN :!:
PLEASE send me your rain :!: :!:
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I want rain !
I NEED RAIN :!:
PLEASE send me your rain :!: :!:
I am in ashford and its very windy but lovely and warm here - no rain in sight - yet!!
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Wet and windy here. Thunder storms last night. The first real rain we have had since April!
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this wind is unreal and scary... house is shaking and I know for a fact my beans and peas will be destroyed.. I hate summer!!!!
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Gusty here, very weird. It'll be totally calm for 2-5 minutes then gale like a hurricane. Here i'm getting everything rolling down the mersey.
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I do feel sorry for you lot North of Winchester. A good stiff sea breeze of the Solent & sunny skies. Good yachting weather apparently.
Rained heavily on Friday night & has turned a lot cooler.
PUP!
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The gales are hammering my beloved ickle garden. I've so little space. I've mainly planted 1 or 2 of everything so the damage is soul destroying. 2 of my tom plants were horizontal, 1 actually had it's first open flower :cry: It's in the house at the moment.The others are lower ground, I've just tried to secure them all again.
My garden chair had blown into 1 of my 2 cuc plants and knocked it over. They each have a flower and are only a foot tall. I'd potted a sage seedling for my beloved dad who's just been diagnosed, well, I'll just say long term ill. I'd left it on my patio table to take it to him tomorrow, and the lot blew over. It's now in the house along with a chili pepper plant. My other varying pepper plants I only planted out a couple of days ago, not looking happy. My potato haulms are now side on aaaaaagh! My buddliea has toppled over my sprout plant. It's all miniscule in comparison to others, it's just the first time I've had a chance in over 20yrs to give growing my own a real go. Lord knows what I'm gona salvage out of it all :cry: I've brought in what I can, the rest is oooooh! That wind!!!!! :shock:
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I decided to venture out today with my children and boy did i regret it. Had to rescue them both off the swings, nearly got blown into main road repeatedly.
On the way back managed to miss the bus even though i was ten minutes early so was the flipping bus grrrr :evil:
As we were walking home in freezing gale force winds, noticed half the streets in Pallister Park had been closed, hence no buses due to wind breaking the trees.
Luckily my OH walked to meet me and helped carry both of our children home. The wind was that bad my youngest got picked up into the air luckily i had hold of me.
The house is still shaking not blooming good i tell ya :evil:
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I returned from a trip away over the weekend to find tree branches on the lawn, potato plants flat at one end, tomatoes plants damaged, French beans damaged , onions flat. Watering can not where I left it. red currents blown off the plant unripe, Many pots on their sides. :(
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Oh dear, Evo :cry:
I hope the damage wasn't irretrievable once you'd got over the shock.
I haven't yet ventured down to the lottie to inspect damage. At least my beans may still be intact - one benefit from the fact they haven't started climbing yet!
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I returned from a trip away over the weekend to find tree branches on the lawn, potato plants flat at one end, tomatoes plants damaged, French beans damaged , onions flat. Watering can not where I left it. red currents blown off the plant unripe, Many pots on their sides. :(
Aye, I just posted on this subject on a separate thread. I hadn't seen this thread initially and thought everyone had somehow missed the winds, or coped with them or done something I hadn't. Foolish of course, I knew it couldn't just be me.
So what's the answer - or isn't there one?
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I returned from a trip away over the weekend to find tree branches on the lawn, potato plants flat at one end, tomatoes plants damaged, French beans damaged , onions flat. Watering can not where I left it. red currents blown off the plant unripe, Many pots on their sides. :(
Aye, I just posted on this subject on a separate thread. I hadn't seen this thread initially and thought everyone had somehow missed the winds, or coped with them or done something I hadn't. Foolish of course, I knew it couldn't just be me.
So what's the answer - or isn't there one?