The seasons in Ukraine go something like summer, summer, summer, autumn, winter, winter, winter, spring, summer.
Winter arrived at the weekend with sleet and snow flurries and temperatures just in to the positive.
Not a bad thing as it will encourage plants to harden off ahead of the real winter and slow down a few pests; namely aphids and sawfly.
Temperatures are forecast to increase over the week which will be welcomed by late emerged oilseed rape and late sown wheat.