FROST TONIGHT - Tuesday 03-May

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  1. shiney

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    Oh Dear! :DOH: :cry3:
     
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    I covered my spuds with grass clippings and double-fleece layer for the late-frost last year and the tips still got "burnt".

    They will be OK, but obviously any setback delays harvest and/or reduces yield
     
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    Only had an odd plant damaged ,had fleece and membraine on mine ,many plots had all blackened where others where untouched even without cover ..
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    sorry to see it was so bad, I think we were lucky last night.

    Temp was 6C when I got up this morning, perhaps a degree or so colder on the allotment.
     
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    Sad sight seeing your spuds like that, we were lucky and had just a very light frost and only on the neighbouring field (and a bit on top of the motor), our garden being several feet higher than the field escaped with none at all...
     
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    That's a shame Scrungee, they will recover, it will just set them back a week or two.

    My car was white with frost and the greenhouse had gone down to just 1 deg C overnight.
     
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    Sorry to hear about your tatties, Scrungee. I've got to say we haven't got near to a frost in my area for a fair while, which isn't to say we won't see one before the end of May.
     
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    Oh Scrunge, wot a Bother :DOH::DOH::DOH:I'm so sorry:cry3: They will come back from the roots but what a lot of time wasted:wallbang:
     
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    Really sorry to hear it Scrungee :cry3:

    We got the frost but it looks as though my watering of the runner beans saved them. They appear OK. :phew:

    Higher nighttime temperatures are forecast here for the next 10 days and there is a possiblity of rain over the weekend.
     
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    I thought you were being OTT with your fleecing photos, but definitely not. Prudence won again, eh?!
     
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    No frost at all down in West Bay, overnight low in the cold frames of 14c.

    Steves Pumpkins are looking angry. Better find somewhere to put them out, thinking about the local rugby pitch.
     
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    I showed what it did to my spuds, and here's what the frost did to the bramble patch where I pick most of my blackberries:

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    and closer up showing the blackened tips:

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    Good job all my apple trees were weeks early this year and there was no blossom left on them to be frosted.
     
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    As that frost got the local brambles, Mrs Scrungee suggested that perhaps we'd better check our loganberries and raspberries.

    It got quite a few of this year's loganberry shoots:

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    Even that really bad frost on 13th May last year didn't damage the loganberries. But no damage to our raspberries. I can only guess at what it done to the blooms on our 120 strawberry plants.

    Am I the only one to suffer this level of damage?
     
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    Update - I dug up a couple of rows of those spuds that had their tops destroyed back in May today:

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    You got me there Scrunge, bringing that thread title back up in a heat wave:D

    Good result after all then:dbgrtmb:
     
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