Drought, Dhalias and Sunburnt Veg

You don’t need us to tell you that ‘Climate Change’ has now very firmly become ‘Climate Changed’.

With the northern hemisphere burning this summer in a never-ending stream of record-breaking heatwave after record-breaking heatwave, who knows what violent extremes of winter storms the super-charged atmosphere might have in store for us this winter.

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Mayday, Mayday, we’re going in!

May always sees a flurry of activity, with one eye on the often-unpredictable weather, as carefully nurtured greenhouse seedlings start getting hardened off in cold frames and then planted out in freshly prepared veg beds.

With the early, and always beautiful, Calla Lilies blooming, we started the month, as is traditional, getting in this year’s dubious potatoes in, and not forgetting to keep a record of which varieties are where!

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From too Wet, to too Hot

Following our unexpectedly early ‘three seasons’ spring equinox BBQ, the UK weather delivered a prolonged heatwave.

Thanks to the growing climate crisis, after last year’s continuously unseasonable cold and wet spring and summer, causing England’s England second worst harvest on record, spring 2025 could prove to be one of the hottest and driest on record. We are already suffering the most extreme marine heatwave since satellite monitoring began.

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