Topic: is there going to be a frost tonight?

[tim]

It was 0C last night. And forecast 0C again fortnight. And the weeks ahead look pretty horrible for growing.

[Debs]

its raining and cold here in the n'east this morning - bound to be as its

half-term ( oh dear, bored children for hubby today while i'm at work ;D )

Debs

[Larkspur]

Metcheck has -4 for 3am tommorow morning here in Shropshire :o :o

[aob9]

Frost in South of Ireland last night. Covered the outdoor toms, pumkin  and courgettes yesterday evening........glad I did now. I don't know how the potatoes faired though. Very confusing weather, I don't think I have ever seen a frost this late here before.

[queen of the cobs]

I think it's going to be colder tonight, if only because it looks like a clearer night - sigh. Am going to go to the plot in the next hour and check out the tender little things...

[cleo]

It was chilly here last night but when I went out to water earlier this morning everything outside seems fine

[manicscousers]

the only thing i've covred is all the squash plants, they're giving ground frost here tonight..as you say, lin, everything else will have to get on with it  >:(  :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

They're forecasting -3 here tonight; we might get a slight frost, but the urban heat island effect will make a big difference. The outskirts may well get frost.

[Fork]

Forecast is for -2 here at 3am tomorow morning.

Not taking any chances.have earthed up my maincrop spuds as much as posible and covered everything in the greenhouse with fleece.

Was going to plant out my runner beans today but they can wait.

[Jeannine]

Does anyone know anything about a site called Garden Action,according to them they can give you the first and last frosts for your town,I tapped in Hull and it said, last frost early May,first  frost mid October. They claim to be right 6 years out of 7

XX Jeannine

[real food]

Mrs KP, I am on the Garscube Allotments.
Kitten, you may be right for England, but in Scotland I think that most people would say the Month of May. The concise Scots dictionary has no entry for Mae flower.
All I can say is I am very glad that all my semi-tropical stuff is still in the greenhouse or in the cold frame, and will stay there until the weather warms up a bit.

[amphibian]

Frost forecast for my part of Kent tonight.  ???

[cleo]

Lovely evening here,birds singing and if there is a frost-oh well-half way down a bottle of red ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

I see Metcheck have revised the local forecast to -1. That means definitely no frost in central Birmingham.

[MrsKP]

ooh you got a website !   ;D  you should have a Gallery page !

 ;D

[glow777]

Does anyone know anything about a site called Garden Action,according to them they can give you the first and last frosts for your town,I tapped in Hull and it said, last frost early May,first  frost mid October. They claim to be right 6 years out of 7

XX Jeannine

dont fancy having all my crops wiped out every 7th year

we plant second week of June, but walking around the plots last night there was a lot of unprotected runner beans

[queen of the cobs]

I think the Garden Action people are a bit vague...I mean I typed in my postcode (SE London) and they said last frost is probably end of May - ok, I know that already!

I find the Met Office very helpful in that they give an hour-by-hour forecast - well, in 3 hour chunks, but you get my drift, I hope?

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/se_forecast_temp.html
(this is for my area but you can change it to refelct where you are living)

[Robert_Brenchley]

There's often a cold spell around this time of year, so I wait till we get a mild spell around the first half of June before I start planting out. Looking at the weath forecast, I'll probably start putting stuff out next weekend. The very occasional late frost may catch me out - we had one on June 16th a couple of years ago - but it wasn't severe enough to do more than set some of my toms back a bit.