Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments: May 2025

Monday, May 26

The odds are stacked against us

Another week has passed without significant rainfall for us. Rain keeps appearing in forecasts, but as the allotted day draws nearer, rain disappears from the radar. We had some dampening of the roads at the weekend. It only measured 0.5mm on the rain gauge in our garden.

We are giving everything as much water as we can, but this is made more difficult by the abysmal water pressure on our site. If two people are trying to access water at the same time, the flow on both taps is reduced to a dribble, or one tap has no water at all. This is causing a huge problem, and we can only wait for the council to send a plumber to investigate.

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Monday, May 19

They've made a comeback

We haven't had any measurable rain for almost two months now, and some areas look like deserts. Below is one of the places where we regularly walk with Ruby. The grass alongside the path is parched and brown. Only where the grass has been kept longer does it remain green.

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Monday, May 12

Unwelcome visitor

In my previous post, I wrote that our early potatoes had pushed through and that we were hoping that there wouldn't be a frost. We were unlucky, as Jack Frost paid us a visit before we could earth up the young potato shoots. It no doubt came as a shock to the plants after enjoying summery daytime temperatures.

Our newly emerged potatoes were subjected to a severe battering. Some disappeared completely. We have had potatoes cut back by frost before and they have regrown, but they have never before looked as badly damaged. Things didn't look good. To add insult to injury, potatoes elsewhere on the site didn't look as though they had been touched. It would seem that we have our own private frost pocket.

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Wednesday, May 7

April in pictures

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Monday, May 5

Bluebell Wood

At times last week, you could be forgiven if you thought summer had arrived early.

At the beginning of the week we had summery temperatures. The media as usual, were dramatising this with reports of the hottest ever April temperature, but, according to the weather station in our garden, our hottest April day, it recorded, was back in 2018. I can also remember years ago, in the 1970s or 1980s, that April was so summery that we went out and bought sun loungers in the Easter holiday. Of course, the summery weather didn't last and by the weekend, the temperature plummeted. It came as a shock to us, and the plants, after being spoiled early in the week.

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