No change on Thursday as the dull damp weather continues. As the milder spell continued I thought I’d take the opportunity to check out our stored winter squashes in the greenhouse. There was a spell of 10 consecutive nights were the temperature fell below 0°C in the greenhouse with temperatures below minus 4°C for 4 consecutive nights.
Back in autumn I’d some straw left over from protecting the banana plants so I put this over the Crown Prince squashes in the greenhouse. I left it in small bales as it's easier to take down to the plot for composting or strawberry plant protection in spring.
It’s now easy to see that some of the squashes have been frozen whilst some look to have escaped. Perhaps a little more care on my part in spreading the straw around the squashes would have given them just that little bit more protection from the cold.
I'll be more careful next year in protecting my stored winter vegetables.
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Don't beat yourself up about the Crown Prince getting frosted - my max/min thermometer shows it dropped to minus 9.1 last month in our greenhouse - would be hard to protect anything in tht sort of temp.
ReplyDeleteWe only got down to -5°C in the greenhouse rather warm in comparison. Really rather pleased I don't try to keep a frost free greenhouse! I'm impressed a couple survived even -5°C. Now might be a good time to get them used.
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