On Jun 21, 10:19*am, "Dartmoor Will"
wrote:
Anyone else having problems?

Veg. are growing very very slowly this year, I know that I'm often late up
here but honestly I cannot remember a year when young plants seem so
reluctant to grow. Potatoes are doing fine and broad beans are in flower,
but that's about it. My lettuce just won't shift and my brassicas are
struggling.
I'm putting it down to the lack of sun.

The hay harvest is a bust this year in some parts of Britain. I have
been looking forward to eating summer cabbage to little avail and the
carrots in the local bandit-merchant (Morrisons) are crap.

OTOH the countryside looks so green at the moment, it appears toxic.
It's amazing just how verdant this country can be just a few miles
from the worst of humanity.

Of course such a colour has a price even if the the hay is brought in
while the sun shines. Maybe those farmers who took a cut of silage
earlier in the year will get away with it if the crop does seed later.
Though I beleive it catches up if it can.

It will all have tobe brought in by the end of June. That leaves a
week to gewt the climate adjusted.

And most of a fortnight of thundery type weather left on the cards.