Damned if it didn’t stop raining… briefly
O frabjous day! Callooh Callay! It stopped raining!
We have an extraordinary 48-hr sunshine window. Can’t pretend it’s warm – 14C max – but at least it’s not pissing. I’ve enjoyed the first productive gardening day in a month.
The cauliflowers are in, and even the asparagus has appeared. At last. Not in time to save the UK asparagus festival, but better late than never.
Jeez, but things look and feel so different in the sunshine. One sees proper colours again, the way God intended… not the washed out, bleached, deathly pallor of life under leaden skies.
We’re back to rain on Monday, but the break has felt like a holiday.
We have nice weather to SM…again for us it first said only a couple of days…however they are now saying that Monday could be dry too…here’s hoping!!
May 12th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
I see dead plants……when ever I try to grow things……but last year my gardener got me to grow some things in pots and I had some tomatoes and corriander and rocket and radishes. This year I have already eaten sage, chives, rocket and spinach from my ‘garden’ and although the beansand peas are yet to emerge I see radishes!!
May 12th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
Good to see you happy for once Soilman 🙂
Sods law has decreed that I’m in bed with a temperature of 102 whilst its lovely and sunny. I’m sure when the rain comes back tomorrow I’ll be feeling fine again.
May 13th, 2012 at 11:02 am
Poor you! What a misery….
May 15th, 2012 at 7:48 am
P.S. Soilman. Is that two asparagi sticking up from the ground in the photo, or you giving a defiant salute to the rain whilst buried?
May 15th, 2012 at 8:14 am
Ha ha, Kevin. Certainly sums up my feelings about the Spring so far…
May 15th, 2012 at 8:39 am
it’s been rubbish down here in the south as well. the asparagus is up at least but we’re not allowed to eat it. 🙁
May 15th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
My asparagus never did put in an appearance, even though I thought I was following the instructions laid out on your highly entertaining video. Maybe I should have planted them in that layer of dirt on my keyboard.
May 16th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Quite a common problem with asparagus crowns is that they’re already dried out and dead by the time you get them. My neighbour put in a whole load in exactly the right way – I watched him! – and only half ever appeared. From which you have to conclude that the roots themselves were ‘dud’.
It’s important to interrogate your supplier about freshness and the max time between the asparagus roots being dug up at the nursery and your receiving them (at the shop or in the mail). If it’s more than about 48 hrs, they’ll be drying out and dying…
May 16th, 2012 at 8:39 pm