What's the weather like where you are? - 2019

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #300 on: March 25, 2019, 16:19 »
The wind died down mid-morning and since then it's been lovely out. T-shirt weather at the plot :D

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #301 on: March 25, 2019, 22:09 »
Lovely day here in Oxford, too, and forecast to continue all week  -  so, wouldn't you know it, it's when we're booked to go off to Fuerteventura for 9 days (Where they're talking about rain!).  After pottering in the garden at home most of the day I dropped in at the allotment around 5pm, just to check everything was snug - in my foolhardy way I already have tender stuff in the greenhouses, and salads in high-level trays. And I was stunned to discover that dahlias are starting to show through!

I have around 2 dozen dahlia plants at the allotments, and my practice for the past several years has been to leave them in the ground over-winter, heavily mulched with whatever comes to hand. Last autumn it so happened that the council delivered us 3 big trailers-full of their park compost, and each of my dahlias had about a barrow-full tipped onto it. So the top of the mound of mulch would be around 10 inches higher than ground level.....   And 5 or 6 of the mounds have small dahlia shoots showing through!

I'm flabbergasted. I'm guessing it must be to do with th very warm weather we had for most of February. Last year, after the Beast from the East, they didn't start showing through til late June, and I lost 6 or 7 of my favourites. Frost is forecast for the Oxford area tonight, but I shall have to be off for an early flight, so no opportunity to do anything about the situation, though I did wedge 5-litre water bottles with their bottoms cut off into the compost around the revealed shoots.

It's in the hands of the gods  -  I shall just have to try not to fret about it all while away, and be interested to find whatever I find when i return on Thursday 4 April. At least I won't now have to negotiate Brexit while I'm away....

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #302 on: March 26, 2019, 07:49 »
I potted up my Dahlias yesterday :)
This morning there's hazy sunshine and 5C,  it went down to zero last night though ::)

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #303 on: March 26, 2019, 11:00 »
About 10ºC which isn't too bad as there is hardly any wind. Generally grey, odd minutes of sunshine breaking through. It's beginning to dry out which is good as the son-in-law is mowing the field for me :) I think he prefers it to being made to go shopping!
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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #304 on: March 27, 2019, 09:37 »
Can I have the sun back please, it's gone missing again :( 
8C now, and doesn't look as if it will warm up like it did yesterday.

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #305 on: March 27, 2019, 10:50 »
The sun is like my mind, its wandered off just now, I think maybe when it wanders it must pop over to Mum's, then back here again.   There is a moderate breeze, so it feels a bit chilly, when the sun goes over to Kent  ;) Mrs Bouquet
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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #306 on: March 27, 2019, 13:38 »
Intermittemt sunny spells again today, sadly no chance to get down the plot today.

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #307 on: March 27, 2019, 14:09 »
A grey start but the sun's come out and there's very little wind.
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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #308 on: March 27, 2019, 15:13 »
Beautiful sunny day in S. Wales with just a gentle breeze. Currently 14C
Due to stay dry and fairly settled for the next 10 days!!
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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #309 on: March 27, 2019, 21:31 »
Really mild, not particularly sunny but enough to get me outside.   Front garden weeded, forked over (so it looks nice) and the lawn mown.  Highest cut possible as this lawn is in the shade, lower cut next week when it has had a chance to dry out a bit.   My front lawn is better than the back lawn which is only moss really as it is on a slope down towards the house.

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #310 on: March 28, 2019, 08:43 »
Low of 5C overnight and 8C now. The sky is completely grey with no movement, so it's not going to clear in a hurry  ::)

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #311 on: March 28, 2019, 09:50 »
Gloriously warm sunshine this morning, so I've decided to cancel everything I had planned today and go and work on the plot this afternoon!

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #312 on: March 28, 2019, 11:35 »
Gorgeous sunny day here.
Finished night shifts this morning so will sow seeds in pots in my back garden ,much too tired to go to plot  :D
Hoping things stay dry and sunny for my days off now.
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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #313 on: March 28, 2019, 22:12 »
Lovely dry, sunny day with a blue sky. Bit chilly in the wind though. I may have to do a bit of watering tomorrow!

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Re: What's the weather like where you are? - 2019
« Reply #314 on: March 29, 2019, 08:21 »
Hazy sunshine this morning  :) Overnight low in the greenhouse 5C outside 9C now and forecast is for a warmer day ;)

A couple of not so warm weeks forecast for the beginning of April though.....



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