| 2014 |
Snab
|
Brize
|
| January |
34.5
|
155.2
|
| February |
42.5
|
105.7
|
| March |
21.0
|
56.6
|
| April |
23.4
|
62.7
|
| May |
58.1
|
80.5
|
| June |
76.6
|
47
|
| July |
58.1
|
29.7
|
| 2014 to date |
314.2
|
537.4
|
Memories of those droughty days of spring draw ever distant. The Moray Monsoon weather pattern seems to becoming ever more prominent - a vote for independence from the rather passé maritime temperate ethos of high winter rainfall afflicting the rest of the UK. In a period of 24 hours on 10-11 August, we had a further 155mm, which you can see is more than the total for the 4 months to April. Good for the pumpkins, not so good for getting in your onions.
It's times like this that the polytunnel earns its keep, fooling the plants into thinking they are thriving in a hot, dry but humid, windless wonder climate.
There's my Minnesota Midget melons...
and my dangling aubergines - which are popular with the local epicurean vole population, who are apparently partial to a baba ganoush appetiser to their main meal of slightly underripe strawberries.And it provides a shelter for one's onions away from the mayhem of the Moray Monsoon,
but not by any means all of them...
