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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Fleecewife on August 30, 2012, 05:13:20 pm

Title: Cold tonight
Post by: Fleecewife on August 30, 2012, 05:13:20 pm

 :garden: Here (southern Scotland) it's forecast to be 5 degrees C tonight.  That's cold enough to give tomatoes, chillies etc a nasty shock.   I'm off to close up the polytunnel early and hopefully give it time to build up a little condensation which will help slow down heat loss by radiation.
Check the forecast for your area  :cold: .  It's not even the end of August  :rant: :rant: :rant:

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: Mammyshaz on August 30, 2012, 06:55:31 pm

Oh that's bad news for my struggling peppers in the poly.  :'(

What's going on with the weather this year?? It has been rediculous trying to judge when to plant or where to keep tender plants.

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: Fowgill Farm on August 30, 2012, 08:34:44 pm

Just down the A1 from mammy shaz and we have very clear skies and its bloody cauld :gloomy:  fear for my pumpkins out in the open, half closed the polytunnel doors so all in there should be ok :fc: bit windy too defo from the North, autumn is on its way..........................
mandy :pig:

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: deepinthewoods on August 31, 2012, 12:01:32 am

bl...y hell, thats rough for this time of year, hopefully therell be enough wqrmth in the soil to hold them over. good luck.

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: Dan on August 31, 2012, 07:48:16 am

We had the slightest of frosts this morning. A bit of a shock to my system let alone the tomatoes!  :cold:

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: MAK on August 31, 2012, 08:28:10 am

Certainly a challenge for everyone - maybe an alert should be posted to warn of frost. People could loose crops after all their hard work and of course a poor summer in the UK.
We are due 3 cooler days and hopefully some rain - enough time for me to skim (render) an outside wall before the temperatures rise again on Monday.

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: Fowgill Farm on August 31, 2012, 10:01:54 am

Frost here this morning, but touchwood don't think was heavy enuff to knock anything out, the pumpkins looked ok as i passed them on way to feed pigs. It is defo Autumn here this morning so much for the last day of summer!
mandy  :pig:

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: Mammyshaz on August 31, 2012, 10:08:06 am

Just up the road fowgill, blimey it's cold this morning.  Jack Frost is here already :o

In my thermals to sort hens and walk dogs  :cold:  we definitely missed the summer, the ground still hasn't dried out from April showers which have  just got heavier as the months passed.

Never mind, we haven't had a hosepipe ban anyway  :D

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: Lesley Silvester on August 31, 2012, 03:51:06 pm

Think I'd better buy some fleece for my outdoor tomatoes.  They've just started ripening.  Lovely and  :sunshine:  here today, albeit a bit cloudy.  Actually got some washing on the line.

Title: Re: Cold tonight
Post by: jaykay on August 31, 2012, 03:56:22 pm

Just the smallest hint of frost on the grass this morning, beautiful and bright  :sunshine: Raining again now however  :raining: