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  • It's official - July the coldest for 22 years

    A local news station has announced that in Northern Ireland, July has been the coldest for 22 years

    July was Northern Ireland

    my poor chilies .... I knew they were suffering

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    My peppers and chilis are suffering in sympathy!...absolutely dreadful year.

    On OH's FB he had a piccie come up from this day last year..peas, radish, lettuce, beans ,2 types of plums,courgettes, mirabelles, spuds...etc etc to overflowing on the table outside.

    Today we managed to pick 10 plums, no mirabelles 4 lbs spuds, no radish, no peas, our first 3 French beans, lettuce.
    No way will we have a glut this year in anything apart from blackberries!
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      This is the first year I've struggled with beans. They went in late, I really couldn't get them out any earlier and this week was the first we could pick any, i'm usually sick of them by now. I won't even mention my poor chillies

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      • #4
        I read your thread title and thought, "No s***, Sherlock...." We're NW England, but we share a lot of your weather. I'm usually not a weather-whiner, it's all swings and roundabouts, but I don't think I remember a July as consistently cold as this before, barring two or three very hot days at the start.

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        • #5
          Wasn't the first week in July a record high?

          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Alison View Post
            Wasn't the first week in July a record high?
            Possibly it was where you are - but certainly not here.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Bacchus View Post
              Possibly it was where you are - but certainly not here.
              It was so brief here that you could have blinked and missed it but it does seem a long time ago!

              Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

              Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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              • #8
                Seems that every year the weather hits a new record for something...wettest this, coldest that...highest floods, lowest rainfall, strongest winds.

                I think we're in a time of flux and will soon need to learn how to grow rice and cacti to be sure of a crop in any given year
                Last edited by muddled; 05-08-2015, 11:21 AM.
                http://goneplotterin.blogspot.co.uk/

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                  This is the first year I've struggled with beans. They went in late, I really couldn't get them out any earlier and this week was the first we could pick any, i'm usually sick of them by now. I won't even mention my poor chillies
                  mine went out late too and I am just down the road from you, I dont even have beans to pick yet. Luckily I grew some early dwarf beans which have kept us going, but I'm sure the weather has let the pole beans down a lot.

                  The other problem I have had this July is slugs and snails. I had almost none the whole year, then they appeared when the conditions became more favourable. The big damage has been to one or two varieties of potatoes - the leaves, which look like they have been attacked by caterpillars, but it is the slugs and snails. I have had to start going on midnight hunts again to put a stop to it.

                  I do hope it warms up for August, though right now it looks like its about to rain.
                  Last edited by Snow; 05-08-2015, 04:34 PM.

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                  • #10
                    My tomatoes have only just set flower and pollination has been so poor that I'll be lucky if the fruit is pea-sized before the frost sets in.

                    I optimistically bought a garden hammock during the 2 day "heatwave" about 6 weeks ago and it's still in its wrapper.

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                    • #11
                      MetO July Summary here

                      July 2015 - Met Office

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