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Snadger · #36 (**permalink**) 14-10-2006, 07:05 PM

Mild today, forgot to look at temp in shed but must have been over 70 deg. Had busy day in lottie, with shirt off at one time because i was sweating! Sitting here now at home with an aching back

Snadger · #37 (**permalink**) 18-10-2006, 11:08 PM

80 deg in shed at 3.30pm Nice day, bit overcast and grey to start with tho! managed a coouple of hours at lottie....planted Epicure and Aqualunce claudia broad beans.

Snadger · #38 (**permalink**) 26-10-2006, 07:17 PM

Very, very windy!!! Made a top for my cold frame yesterday and I'm just wondering if it's blown into someone elses allotment! Won't get back there til Saturday when I'll survey the damage

Snadger · #39 (**permalink**) 26-10-2006, 07:18 PM

Forgot to add, it's still quite warm though!

JennieAtkinson · #40 (**permalink**) 26-10-2006, 07:31 PM

How windy Snadger? Shetland Radio just given out that we have had 90 mph winds this afternoon, and currently gusting 80 mph. Is this gale going over the whole country? Makes me feel better if it is, but commiserations if you have had stuff blown away.

Snadger · #41 (**permalink**) 27-10-2006, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JennieAtkinson

How windy Snadger? Shetland Radio just given out that we have had 90 mph winds this afternoon, and currently gusting 80 mph. Is this gale going over the whole country? Makes me feel better if it is, but commiserations if you have had stuff blown away.

Er...well not quite 90 mph!! Probably nearer to 40mph which I suppose is a slight breeze to you! Lol

Sorry if this doesn't make you feel any better but I've just had a thought!

I had an 8 foot wall of Borlotti beans!!!
Had, could be the right word

I'll check tomorrow!

Snadger · #42 (**permalink**) 27-10-2006, 07:34 PM

Chucked it down all morning but got out bright this saffa! Could be worse, could live in Shetland!

Snadger · #43 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 09:51 PM

Weather has been good today! 60 deg in shed. Wind had knocked my Borlotti/butter beans down, but because I haven't had time to do anything else I've just propped them up again! As I said a nice day, warm but cloudy, no wind!!!

Snadger · #44 (**permalink**) 03-11-2006, 08:17 AM

First visible white frost this morning! Brrrrrrr!! I don't want to go to work!

Snadger · #45 (**permalink**) 11-11-2006, 10:12 PM

Slightly frosty at nights! Not enough to totally kill my Christmas spuds, but there again I have got a paraffin heater in the cold frame. Still hanging in there!

Snadger · #46 (**permalink**) 02-12-2006, 07:15 PM

Haven't posted on this thread for a while but I still think its mild for the time of year! Summer bedding plants are still growing and haven't been killed by the frost yet! We haven't even had a haw frost to stop the grass growing and turn it red yet!

Snadger · #47 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 08:20 PM

Spent a lovely day (3hrs this time of year) at the lottie today, lovely winter sunshine but the frost never lifted. Think I.ve just inherited a lottie in a frost pocket as everywhere else was clear of frost. Never mind, perhaps it will kill all the bugs in the garden...Fat chance!

Geordie · #48 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 10:54 PM

Today....balmy 68 degrees, positively Mediterranean! No need for a jumper........oh you meant outside!

Snadger · #49 (**permalink**) 16-12-2006, 05:16 PM

Not a bad day weatherwize with only nine days til Christmas. Sunny & 50 degrees farenheit in shed and stuff in lottie is still growing, particularily garlic which is starting to look like sweetcorn seedlings 6" high!!!

Well impressed!

Snadger · #50 (**permalink**) 27-12-2006, 03:19 PM

One degree above freezing in my shed today and dull and overcast!

Just popped in quickly to the lottie to check everything was ok, drop off a whitecurrant plant and a small potted bay tree! Collected tin of seeds and intend to get some onions sown in my new heated propogator at home where it's nice and warm!!

Snadger · #51 (**permalink**) 28-12-2006, 05:55 PM

Amasingly it was 10 degees warmer today than yesterday. Still just low forties though but much more pleasant to work in!

Snadger · #52 (**permalink**) 02-01-2007, 12:59 AM

Just above freezing point today outside, but 50 deg in shed when the sun was on it. Noticed buds on blackcurrants. Very windy on new years eve and had to retrieve cold frame which had blown about 10'0" from where I left it!

Snadger · #53 (**permalink**) 07-01-2007, 06:48 PM

Managed to get a session in at the lottie yesterday and today! Yesterdays temp in shed 40 deg...todays 50 deg.

Bit overcast with the sun peeping through now and again, quite pleasant to work in really!

Digger-07 · #54 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 07:08 PM

When are these gales going to end so that I can get some cloches to stay put and not go sub orbital?

Digger-07 · #55 (**permalink**) 12-01-2007, 02:48 PM

Not today thats for sure!!

Snadger · #56 (**permalink**) 27-01-2007, 11:53 PM

Spent day at lottie today 50 deg f in shed probably 40f outside. Starting to get a bit lighter on evenings and should be able to get to lottie more. Still no snow apart from the odd dusting. February is usually bad round here though so it's still got time!! All in all non three bad as far as weather goes up til now!

Snadger · #57 (**permalink**) 05-02-2007, 11:08 PM

A lovely sunny winters day where the frost has hardly lifted on the fields and the temperature after 2.00pm was just over freezing point! Still managing to keep the shed above 40 deg with the paraffin cold frame heater. Dark at 5.30 giving me an hour in alottment!

Snadger · #58 (**permalink**) 17-02-2007, 08:39 PM

If i didn't know better i would have swrn it was a summers day today! Sunny spells and quite warm!

Was intending getting a full weekend in at the allotment but did so much today, because of the weather, my limbs have seized up and I will have to go on light duties tomorrow!

Snadger · #59 (**permalink**) 19-02-2007, 08:29 PM

It's one extreme to another lately! Today was misty, cold, a miserable day where the best place to be was sitting next to a fire! Didn't even bother going to lottie when I finished work as it is real couch potatoe weather!