Prompted by checking back on my garden diary for last year
and noting that it was a very pleasant 25 degrees on the 24th of May when I
planted Charentaise and Sweetheart melons out into the garden, I thought I’d
see just how bad this year has been so far.
It certainly feels as though it has been continuously cold and wet with very
little sunshine.
Putting together some very rough statistics for the months
of March, April and May, or Spring as it used to be called, revealed the
following: In 2011 we had 21 days of
rain and 66 days of sunshine over those three months. In 2012 the figures were 20 wet days and 41
sunny ones. This year – up to 25th
May we’ve had 60 wet days. That’s sixty
days when it has rained or snowed for at least half the day and night. Sunny days have been a mere 24.
