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OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 09 2:16 pm Post subject: Frost Warning - Saturday night
There is a forecast of a -3C frost here (West Yorkshire) saturday night. If you have anything tender in the greenhouse and it not heated, make sure its very well insulated!

sickpup

Joined: 19 Jun 2008
Posts: 164
Location: Amble,Northumberland

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 09 1:31 pm Post subject:
i live in sunderland should i cover my shallots and onions?

sellickbhoy

Joined: 12 Jan 2009
Posts: 45

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 09 3:43 pm Post subject:
i put my shallots and onions out in december - they are in a raised bed with good drainage, so excess water isn't a problem anyway, they've coped with the cold well enough and are coming along nicely - so i think they'll survive a frost

James

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2866
Location: York

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 09 4:05 pm Post subject:
I think shallots & onions will be OK with cold weather.

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 09 4:17 pm Post subject:

thanks - it's forecasted on Metcheck for us in South Somerset for the next three nights at least. I'll have to wrap the kiwi and the replacement pluot that arrived last week. Oh and the peaches and apricots are flowering, so they could do with some overnight fleece.

I don't have much that's vulnerable planted outside yet, but the frost can do a lot of damage to just-emerging leaves and flowers on the fruit trees

mbeirnes

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 100

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 09 4:40 pm Post subject:
It will give the brasica seedlings a hardening off over here (4 miles down the road) They are in the poly tunnelso have some protection!

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18415

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 09 5:14 pm Post subject:
And on the [north-]west side of the country too : -2C predicted for tomorrow night, for D&G, Cumbria, Lancashire. So for being west, it's not much warmer. There was snow on the hills this morning, and sleet today on the lower ground to the Solway.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 09 1:21 pm Post subject:
The temperatures turned out rather lower than forecast. Was originally forecast as -2 By yesterday/Saturday evening, Met Office was predicting -4. Actual temp at the weather station up the valley last night was -6.9 So those of you further south expecting cold nights in the next few days..... it might be colder than you think.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 09 6:23 pm Post subject:
Yep. There was a pretty hard frost last night - water in the bowls was frozen solid.

mbeirnes

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 100

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 09 9:47 am Post subject:
Didnt happen here

Bodrighy

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 2157
Location: Near Devizes

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 09 11:33 am Post subject:
Frost? What frost. Checked the thermometer and it did get cold.....about 5 c whatever that is in old money but no frost. Just really windy. Pete

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