Its so cold here

[pelmetman]

Its turned really cold here have had to light the fire.

Have loads of beans in the greenhouse growing so tall all getting knotted together, need to go out really but I know it is still far too cold at night. The cold frames are full and all the seedlings are covered with glass. I really wish it was summer.

Sue

[yvette]

Yep, have the same dilemma - I only have a little plastic 'greenhouse' and my beans are fighting to get out of the top! But its bitter cold and windy at night. However, someone at work has got his beans and tomatoes out already and says they are coping....

[Nick69]

All our seedlings are outside now. Our Sunflowers are in the ground and doing REALLY well. Onions are growing well Lettuce too. Everything is doing well actually. We've had to light the fire though as its chilly down here.

[Millymollymandy]

I've only just sown my beans and all things tender and they will be ready to plant out at the beginning of June (just like the text books say).

We came back from holiday to cold windy weather but at least we had 5 days of summer. Perhaps that's it.

Just desperate for rain as it is so dry I am having to water drooping plants and the lawn is going all blotchy.

[citizentwiglet]

Thank God it's not just me with bean problems! I have 8 climbing beans and 6 dwarf beans DESPERATELY needing out of their loo roll inners. They're being hardened off at the moment. Fortunately, the community garden opens next week, so the dwarf beans can go in the raised bed (soil is beautifully warm) under a big cloche........

[Thomzo]

I'm beginning to regret not getting my boiler fixed. I'm managing OK with the log fire but it's only in the living room and doesn't stay in all night so it's brrrrr cold getting up in the morning.

I'm currently wearing three jumpers and two pairs of socks (amongst other things) and it's May!

Zoe

[Jessiebean]

How cold is cold? Our Qld newspaper was once reporting on a naked boy who was sighted in one of the rural towns and memeorably said "the boy could freeze to death if he runs around naked in these freezing overnight temperatures- it can get down to 12C" which I found amusing have walked to school in Canberra in -5c weather every Winter. I am chilly here and layering my clothes to the extreme but I am interested to know if what I think is cold is what you think is. I know that in New Zealand 24C is considered extremely hot whereas we start thinking it is hot at around 35C.

[citizentwiglet]

I'm in Scotland, so anything under 5 degrees is cold. Anything over 12 degrees is hot...... 15 is positively tropical. 18 degrees we can't cope with at all, and hide indoors in case we burn.

With me, there are varying types of cold. You get beautiful sunny mornings that are cold, but they don't seem as cold as the dull, dreich mornings with low cloud which are usually actually a bit warmer. In fact, a few months ago we were regularly at minus 2 to 5 degrees, even during the day, but that didn't seem as cold - it's obviously something to do with being prepared for it.........If that makes sense.

Then you have breeze factor - I can't handle a breeze, it can be 20 degrees, but the moment I feel a breeze the cardi goes back on. And to think I'm 37, not 87.

[Durgan]

It has been cool over the last week or so around 3 C at night and about 12 during the day, but it is starting to warm beginning tomorrow. The ground temperature is about 12 to 15 so not much will grow. Really can't be safe until the end of May for frosts.

Garden has some cold weather vegetables planted and they are simply standing still. Cabbage, Brussels sprouts, Romain Lettuce, Onions. Potatoes haven't broken through the ground yet. Carrots, peas and beets haven't germinated. All the bush bearing fruit look healthy, currants, gooseberry, grapes, pears, peaches and blackberries. I expect a good year.

It has rained quite a bit, which is most welcome, since April was dry.

[Millymollymandy]

We have a real white frost outside, 1C, that absolutely a first for me in 13 years in France! But I could tell that this month was different so that's why my geraniums are still indoors - flowering inside for the first time! - and I am bringing in my newly bought little tomato plants at night.

Jessiebean - freezing is a good word, you can be freezing at 20C in the height of summer when the temps have suddenly dropped from 30! I find the wind chill here a big factor as we seem to have had an awful lot of north or NE winds this spring which turn even 10C into 'absolutely freezing'.