FIRST FROST

[rugbypost]

We had a heavy cover of frost last night hope the weather in Wales is not going to be   another bad one. Have stocked up on road salt O/H will strip us all off by the back door again this year (HA) Swedes and sprouts should be tasty for  sunday lunch ;D

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[Digeroo]

We had our second light frost at the lottie but it was foggy this morning so the garden escaped again.  I do not think it was enough to affect the sprouts or the parsnips though both have been very tasty already.

[Kea]

My garlic is getting tall so it could do with a frost but I have strawberries ripening.

[antipodes]

Not really frost but it was the coldest morning yet. I popped down to recover my compost box from the kitchen that I had left down there, and it was pretty cold. I popped off a couple of handfuls of sprouts, there are loads of them! I know what we will have for Sunday lunch!!! Hopefully the cold will have un-bittered them a little. The other plants are starting to falter, like the  marigolds and the nasturtiums.

[ancellsfarmer]

Not quite last night, local minimum 2.6deg C (Crondall weather) Will set things in motion.....
Talk is of an El Nino period. Could it be a long, hard winter? Any evidence?

[Digeroo]

A recorded temperature of 2.6C is cold enough for a ground frost. 

It was cold here last night, I woke about 2:30am and it was worryingly cold.  I nipped out and covered some strawberry plants I had just potted.  We were lucky: the mists rolled in and kept everything snug.  All the plants were dripping in condensation.
 
Winter of 1976/7 was cold after the toasting summer of 1976.  December 1976 rather cold.  Minimums of -9 to -12.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/q/c/dec1976.pdf

[galina]

Goodness, just checked on the weather station and it was 2C last night here.  That's not what the weather forecast said.     

[Digeroo]

I am not surprised it was already less than 5C here by 2:30.  I did not fancy trying to grope round the allotment in the dark.

We had a frost in August a couple of years ago.   I heard about that one and managed to fleece my courgettes.