My grass is still growing...

I cut my grass this afternoon as it was nice and Sunny this morning,it now looks like the Somme

Karl

I cut mine yesterday as it was dry. Unbelievably late for the time of year.

Grass will grow above temperatures above 10 degrees C which it's been of late.

Everything utterly soaked here. A month of almost continuous rain, plus periodic flooding with our house cut off (but not flooded) on a number of occasions. A horrible autumn/winter so far here. We are all praying for some clear and cold weather ie like a normal winter.

The fields are totally sodden, every new rainstorm just brings instant flooding that would normally be absorbed with little drama. Same again tonight we suspect.

Slightly damp in York as well!

My thoughts are with you oop north. You've certainly had your fair share of rain. We've been let off lightly down here in the south east. It seems crazy gong to work in shirt sleeves at this time of the year.

Shirt sleeves.

Just had a brisk walk around Scarborough sea front, beautiful day but not quite shirt sleeves!

Richard

I shall have a word with our gardener.

I've cut my front & rear lawns,  but have not touched the vegi/orchard grassed areas.  I cut them 1st week Dec as they were too long to leave considering the speed they were still growing.   The front (south facing) was the longest & ended up a bit of a mess with worm cast splatter & wheel marks & it took until Christmas to recover.   Now it looks like it could take another cut;  but no-way am I risking that as we are bound to get sub zero any time soon.  

Hungryhalibut posted:

In a normal year, the grass gets its last cut in early December

I noticed we have an summer flowering Rose out at present. Perhaps all the rain has confused it into thinking its August!

I cleaned the old "flymo", (actually it's an Allen/Toro hover-mower) back in October thinking that would be "IT" until March. It was out yet again today and I suspect there will be a couple more cuts before March. I've had to keep cutting every fortnight and can't see this changing.

Might have to consider growing grapes rather than gooseberries before too long !

We went for a walk on Sunday up on the Downs and found daffodils in bloom, as well as spotting a beautiful deep red rose in a garden en route. No wonder the shops aren't selling any coats - here on the south coast at least. 

Hungryhalibut posted:

We went for a walk on Sunday up on the Downs and found daffodils in bloom, as well as spotting a beautiful deep red rose in a garden en route. No wonder the shops aren't selling any coats - here on the south coast at least. 

Coats ! Nobody north of Watford knows what a coat is ! I mean, having a shirt with sleeves is all you need unless the temperature drops below -15 deg C. Coats ? Bloody Southerners !

You probably have fires or some fancy heating system in the house ?

Here's so cold that even dogs retire. And grass is sharp like knives. Not a single drop of rain/snow in months. Looks like living on the damn mars' surface......

Grass can wait, Gooseberry bushes we planted earlier this year seem to have been blasted by the wind. I wonder if they will recover?

Went from +15C two days ago in Warsaw to -5C today...

At least my NAIM is kept at room temperature, ready to serve...

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

Hungryhalibut posted:

In a normal year, the grass gets its last cut in early December

 

Probably stops growing when the high intensity lights are disconnected

I was down in West Palm beach the past week .. average daytime temperature was 87 degrees .. it's just not right to be sweating like a navvie at the end of December.

Grass is still growing here too .. should be brown and dormant at this time of year,

And the temperature is still dropping in the middle of Europe - expedting -10C by the end of this week.

I'm in Prague next weekend, hope it snows!

At the moment no snow neither in Prague nor Warsaw

Some snowfall is forecasted over the weekend though...

We were saying yesterday how much the grass has grown.  We have been away for 2 weeks over Christmas and New Year and the difference is noticeable.

We traveled on a cruise to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland and Belgium and the weather was disappointingly mild.  We even saw a rose bed in bloom in Copenhagen. The coldest places were Oslo and Hamburg, but even these places were just above freezing which is unusual at this time of year. 

While it's also still much too mild in Germany, we do have our first serious snow of the season...