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| Early potatoes pushing up their shoots. Notice my homemade concrete path made with recycled pig slats. |
There were frosts this morning and the air felt very chilly. Never known an April so dry or so nice. Talking to a farmer friend who was talking to another farmer, and he said it was like this years ago when he got married one April. Then it rained all summer. Hope this isn't summer? What do you think?
Do you know this one ?
ReplyDeleteIf Oak leafs before Ash we are in for a dash
but if
Ash leafs before Oak then we are in for a soak.
No I have never heard that one, Heron. Every season in a day at the moment. Thanks!
DeleteUnfortunately Heron's View the saying doesn't hold true, oak is heat sensitive, ash is light. Statistically ash has only come into leaf a handful of times before the oak in the last half century.
ReplyDeleteYes Dave, we have now recovered all our potatoes with straw plus the asparagus, we had quite a frost last night it has badly affected our wisteria, I just hope it recovers, now I'm worrying about the gooseberry bushes, the fruit is set but I don't know how a frost will affect them.
It's been a strange April, Anne. Trees and shrubs are in flower which now which would be May in England. It gets very cold at night. The Irish call it something like: "scariveen". It means: "the wind of the cuckoo". I know the Romans called Hibernia, which means: land of eternal winters. Yet strangely enough they never visited here. Thanks!
DeleteHow are your potatoes Dave? Ours have been frost bitten quite badly, even the ones in the tunnel.
DeleteOurs seem OK Anne. But we are on the Gulf Stream so it's probably a bit milder down here in West Cork.
DeleteAm enjoying sharing your veg gardening.....still not one seed planted here, and the land is still being tilled by our pigs!
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoy reading the blog Vera. I think if you broadcast the pig tilled land with swede seeds in late May/early June. You will have a great crop. Thanks!
DeleteActually Anne, the saying that I quoted, comes from Co. Offaly and has certainly borne true over the last twenty-four years.
ReplyDeleteThe saying is European wide but it depends on what part of Europe you come from, Norway and Germany have it round the other way to Ireland and the UK.
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