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Mid-April and still a touch of frost at night. Plants in the greenhouse have slowed down despite me lighting a candle every night! Put in some more tomatoes and some sweet peppers today. So I think that is a dozen tomatoes and 3 peppers. Just another cucumber and some hot chillies to go. Then plant some more herb seeds and hopefully put some of the herbs and flowers out in the garden.
A dozen or so bulbs are now flowering in the front, diffs, tulips and a couple of others.
Rubbish weather day wet and windy and chilly.
The Ever Given remains wedged in the Suez Canal blocking it totally and preventing the carriage of £6.6 billion of trade per day, (12% of world trade – 50 ships per day). The 200000 tonne 400m long vessel went aground on Tuesday and may take days to clear. Ships are now embarking on the journey around the Cape of Good Hope which adds a week on the journey. High winds of 30mph and a dust storm were given as a cause of the incident.
Why is the wind so noisy? Certainly blowing at the moment! I have repotted the planyts that arrived yesterday and will give them a day to acclimatise, hoping that the slugs will not get them. And then planting Papaver plats tomorrow. Old shirts selected for hanging baskets!
before the storm I think! Rain and high winds later. So a nice walk around the Strawberry Line and Thatchers and then a look at the new estate.
Just get this bit out of the way – Farts
The Helm Wind (the only named wind in the UK) is a strong north-easterly wind hitting the southwest slopes of Cross Fell in Cumbria. When a wind blows at a constant speed and direction through a layer of stable air perpendicular to the ridge or peak of hills and mountains, the result is something called a lee wave.