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    Autumn 2023

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    3 hours ago, Relativistic said:

    Noticed the leaves are just starting to turn on one or two trees. Last time I remember it being this early was in 2017 when I lived in Brum.

    That'll be heat stress not autumnal decay. Too early yet

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    Autumn 2023

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    What a stunning morning: +8c at 6am, a heavy dew and a beautiful autumnal mist rising off the Stour valley to the east and the Meon valley to my south. I've been in the States for the last 11/12 days (work trip) so I've missed most of the harvest, though I see a few wheat fields are still up. Early morning tractors are out and turning over the OSR fields, mucking and prepping them for drilling next year's wheat/barley.

    Just ate my first blackberry of the season - delicious. Hawberries are turning from pink to red, early sloes are out and elderberries are filling the hedgerows. Hazelnuts and conkers - swelling nicely. 

    Three weeks until September.....

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    Autumn 2023

    in Spring Weather Discussion

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    Autumn's almost here if you know where to look !! Our first crop of cherries have been picked and sealed in kellner jars with vodka. The elderflower has turned to elderberry, blackberries are still green, but visible on the bramble bushes. I've got a crop of Lords 'n' Ladies in the darker corners of the upper orchard that are just starting to turn red - a great harbinger of late summer.

    Elsewhere: Hazelnuts are fattening up, hawthorn & blackthorn bushes are in berry (hello sloe-gin !!) but still green, Pink Lady apple trees are struggling under the weight of this year's crop already. Conkers seem to have doubled in size in a week too.

    Now waiting for:

    The Winter barley harvest, OSR harvest, then the wheat to follow. After that's safely in, it's all eyes pealed on my early morning cycle rides for the first autumnal mists in mid/late August. 

     

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