Friday 17 April 2020

Weather wishes

Our Blenheim Orange, the most mature of our apple trees, is now in full bloom. We wish to avoid hard frosts right now. Or any very windy conditions. The apple and pear crops were poor in 2019 and we look for this year to make amends. 

With the sheep rotating around the grazing fields, after our so far dry spring, we wish for some steady rain. If that can be repeated so that there is a good soaking about once every ten days, that will be most welcome. And also for the temperatures to be in the high teens or low twenties, and not fall much below 10 degrees centigrade overnight. This will help enormously with the grass re-growth as well as the crops gradually filling up the vegetable plots. 

Always looking forward. How quickly the bewailing of the constant winter rain has been forgotten. In the event we take what comes.




4 comments:

  1. We had steady rain from dawn to midday, today and it was noticeably cooler. I'm glad we got outside in the sun on the previous days, and ate our meals at the table in the garden. After lockdown I suspect there may be a lot of people with vitamin D deficiency! (not your good self of course, Philip, I'm confident you get plenty of Suffolk sunshine all year round!)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Yes, good point about vitmanin D and the lockdown. As you might know from the time you spend in Norfolk, rain often sweeps from the west across to the East but by the time it reaches us it has fizzled out. There's many a time here when the forecast has been for rain and it dosen't appear. We are expecting some this evening, though.

    ReplyDelete
  3. If it rained at night and the sunshined in the day time? Super photos.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yes Dave, I shoul have added rain only between the hours of 10pm and 6am.

      Delete