Beware frost tonight 29th-30th May in the UK.

Andy Hamilton · Tue May 29, 2007 6:38 pm

Keep those tender crops wrapped up warm with some hay or under glass tonight as a frost will hit the midlands and northern England. (don't quote me on this but I think much of Scotland will be missed).

Otherwise water your plants with ice cold water tomorrow morning which sometime can stop them from dying.

Shirley · Post: # 59158Post **Shirley** » Tue May 29, 2007 6:54 pm

Rain rain and more rain here -

red · Post: # 59180Post **red** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:02 pm

we got frost last night

the beans were whipped to death the night before with the high winds and about half lost all their leaves. the remaining ones got frosted last night. I did not expect a frost cos the forecast (thankyou BBC!) said rain grrrrrrr. mostly it just touched things... one cougette leaf, a couple of runner beans.. two sweetcorn

sigh

The Chili Monster · Tue May 29, 2007 9:17 pm

Dreadful weekend.

No frost predicted for the deep south.
Cloudy over the Channel but clear sky in all other directions. Have brought in the precious chilli peppers as a precaution.

Millymollymandy · Wed May 30, 2007 6:09 am

It was 3.7 C here yesterday morning but no actual frost. At least we got a day of sunshine. Back to grey and drizzle again now.

Bonniegirl · Wed May 30, 2007 6:14 am

Well it was a bank holiday!

C'mon guys ya should know better!

Muddypause · Wed May 30, 2007 11:29 am

Well as I've just bought a new water butt, I'm loving this weather.

Andy wrote:Otherwise water your plants with ice cold water tomorrow morning which sometime can stop them from dying.

What's the theory on that, then?

Andy Hamilton · Wed May 30, 2007 12:38 pm

I think it is down to the cold temperature followed by being scorched by the sun. The plants go from one extreme to another. The cold water makes it gradually get used to the different temperature. I think that is it.

Mind you with all this rain the day after the frost I think we will be ok and it would have naturally done this.

ina · Post: # 59307Post **ina** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:10 pm

We had ground frost of -5something a few nights back... Only at ground level, though. Grass in my garden was white.

colhut · Post: # 59373Post **colhut** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:23 pm

Muddypause wrote:Well as I've just bought a new water butt, I'm loving this weather.

We got a juice container a couple of weeks ago, we now have 400 gallons of rainwater stored

. Pity the plants are dead