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
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.
My garlic is getting tall so it could do with a frost but I have strawberries ripening.
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.
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?
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
Goodness, just checked on the weather station and it was 2C last night here. That's not what the weather forecast said. :BangHead:
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.