
Whilst scrolling through Twitter on this unseasonably sunny February day I came across this Tweet from @British_wx showing the sunshine hours for the 25th February.
The dramatic difference in sunshine hours across the country got me thinking about the extremes of light and the role it has in photosynthesis.


- Winchester 19 DLI
- Inverness 9 DLI
Remember in my last blog on
That’s all before you introduce shade – I’m still working on these figures still but here are my best guesses
If you look like this (thanks for the picture Jon Merchant @Walsall_Greens) then I’d say your at 40% shade
- Winchester 13 DLI
- Inverness 6 DLI
If your shade looks like this I’d say that is around 70% shade so now it’s
- Winchester 11 DLI
- Inverness 5 DLI
And if you look like this which I’d say is 85% shade then it’s
- Winchester 3 DLI
- Inverness 1 DLI
Or in other words a very long way from succesfully growing Bent.