Fortunately all our seedlings growing in our home greenhouse and our crops outside at the allotment survived Thursday morning's low temperature of 2.2°C or 36.0°F unscathed. To give them a real test Friday morning has turned out to be equally as cold.
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I've had a quick look in the greenhouse this morning and once again our seedlings have come through looking unscathed although I'm not so sure it won't have given them a bit of a setback. The overnight low temperature in the greenhouse was 4.3°C (39.7°F).
One of yesterday afternoon's jobs at the allotment, after an inspection for frost damage, was to start getting some supports in for our Onward peas which are growing quickly.
There's a real mixture of twiggy branches used as supports for the peas. There's elder, hazel and a mixture of fruit bush prunings used. They seem to provide flimsy support compared to using pea and bean netting but surprisingly they usually do a good job. Once they're no longer suitable to use as pea sticks they will be broken up and added to the compost heap.
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Awesome update Martyn thank you for sharing and blessings to you both
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting Linda.
DeleteSurprisingly we have been a few degrees warmer than you at night lately! I think the coastal influence is the reason, that and the shelter in our back garden where the sensors are.
ReplyDeleteLuckily I think any damage has been minimal. Some cucumber seedlings look decidedly unhappy but I think they will recover. Some potatoes on the plot look frosted even though they were covered which is odd.
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