Topic: Wide Spread Frosts

[betula]

Reported for Saturday night. :(

Put my sweetcorn in a bit late and they are almost there but do not think they are going to make it now .

[Flighty]

Cold next week as well!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8061737/Snow-to-hit-Britain.html

[ACE]

You think thats bad, look what metcheck has predicted for us

[betula]

Here we go again....don't you just hate it?

[sunloving]

If it does happen its a month earlier than we've had for four years (first frost date here has been second or third week in november) . Its been a cold week !! havent wanted to do much outside.

Have a lot of wrapping up to do tommorow  :(
x sunloving

[Ninnyscrops.]

You think thats bad, look what metcheck has predicted for us

Gosh, that should dry the washing on the line Ace!  ;D

[Jeannine]

Wow, that seems very early.. time is certainly flying. Our first frost day is Nov 15,, wonder if we will make it.. we do have a full week of sunshine predicted thoguh. XX Jeannine

[Paulines7]

Reported for Saturday night. :(

Put my sweetcorn in a bit late and they are almost there but do not think they are going to make it now .

Mine aren't ready either.  The large ones are almost there and I have picked some of them but the baby Chires need longer. 

I don't know whether to fleece them or cut them down and keep them on the plant in the shed for a couple of weeks.  The problem is that the weather is not going to get warmer over the next week so I can't see that they would ripen if left in the ground. 

If I picked off the corns and put them on a warm sunny window ledge indoors, would they ripen?

[Obelixx]

Our first frost last year was in mid October and it was -6C which was a bit of a shock to me and the garden.   

I'll be picking the pumpkins this afternoon and storing them indoors for safety.   Fleece for the cavolo nero and fingers crossed for the broccoli and  sprouts.   I don't expect the assorted oriental leaves to survive much longer now.