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The Met Office is predicting 5C at night for Guildford on Tues 5th May - anyone further North preparing for a ground frost?

2C here for Tues night.

3 here monday and tuesday

Quote from: manicscousers on May 01, 2011, 17:35:28
3 here monday and tuesday

Same here. Thursday looks OK. Might even rain!!

THURSDAY the 5th??

1 deg.

Oh, I meant Tues 3rd. Silly me.

1 ºC Wednesday and Thurdsay nights here in Newbury according to netweather.tv.

3 here too

Depending on the time of night..anything between 0c and minus 2c  :(

Still not too late... keep looking at French and Runners put out... if this wind doesn't strip them of their leaves a late frost will sort them out...  :-X

Too late to do anything about my earlies..but my late potatoes just coming through.Syrawberries in full flower too  :(     not set any bean seed yet!

Have just checked.  Looks like from Tuesday night the fleece will come out.  I haven't got enough to cover all the potatoes.  Will cut all grass I can and mulch as well, that should help.  It will go down to +1C here in Northants, but that is enough to freeze-burn potato foliage.  I have a few cloches as well. 

Even newspaper works well as frost protector.  Big sheets, single layer, overlapping and weighed down with the occasional small handful of soil. 

Our fruit trees have just set apart from apples which are still flowering, hope the baby fruit will be ok.  Pears are the worst for getting frosted after setting,  plums seem to get away with it better.  Goosegogs are fairly big already this year.

Thanks for the warning. 

Where do you all live? Here in Torbay the lowest forecast temperature for the next 7 days is 7C - just as well since all my beans, corn and celeriac were planted out a couple of days ago!

It's been very windy today though so I'm sure they were all glad of their fleece cosy!

Tricia

Quote from: OllieC on May 01, 2011, 16:43:54
The Met Office is predicting 5C at night for Guildford on Tues 5th May - anyone further North preparing for a ground frost?

Surely you jest good felllow, according to my calendar, supplied by Blackberry.com, (hehehehe) the 5th of may is actually on Thursday of this week, but fotunately, both on Tuesday night & on the 5th may, min temp here is 6*

Phew

We are going to earth up the tatties later today just in case

Three Degrees! Me Chilis! When Will I see You Again?

It was quite 'fresh' last night..so I mulched all my vunerable ones with fleece and weedtops..chopped all the comfry down as well and piled that with some cauli leaves on top of potatoes.. ;)
Now I'm going to get lawns cut today and spread that as well..sorted! ;D
Ohh..it pays not to be impatient with sowing tender stuff..sorry..but can't help but gloating, I haven't sown any of that stuff yet..told you so :-X ;)

Even though the results on googling

metcheck uk

In your area says no frost. You could get some. If it says frost you could be lucky.

At this time of year most things like spuds and cabbages will survive a mild frost.  Nipped they could be but not a terminal condition, the outsides may discolour but the centres will usually come back.  So don't worry too much unless you have outside things like tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. They don't survive temperatures below 5 degrees and should not be out before the end of May, alone without a cover.

So go out before dawn and give them a cuddle.

It's saying 4 now for here on Tues night - that's enough for me to take the toms & cucurbits into the kitchen overnight. My grandfather always said his grandfather said not to put tenders out before May 15th - and I reckon he's right most years.

Quote from: OllieC on May 02, 2011, 19:46:40
It's saying 4 now for here on Tues night - that's enough for me to take the toms & cucurbits into the kitchen overnight. My grandfather always said his grandfather said not to put tenders out before May 15th - and I reckon he's right most years.

I have not got above 4 on a night yet but hoping to before summer is over.