We only managed a couple of visits to the allotment last week. We had a couple of appointments and the drizzly rain was enough to make gardening a less attractive proposition.
Most mornings we have pulled back the curtains to evidence that it has rained during the night but unfortunately this has been drizzly rather than the much needed heavier rain. Overnight our rain gauge has only collected millimetres or even fractions of a millimetre. During the day, it has felt more like that we were surrounded by low clouds rather than actual rain. Our couple of days of heat was certainly a blip and it certainly hasn't felt summery.
The wetness, I can't bring myself to call it rain, has been enough to encourage the weeds and the grass to grow. During our couple of visits there was little time to deal with weeds of cut grass as our priority was to harvest. A tidy plot isn't much good if you allow your crops to spoil.
