I posted yesterday that we might not be finished with frosty nights and it turned out to be correct. Never mind when in April it happened as early Saturday morning produced the coldest April temperature in ten years as the thermometer fell to -2.6°C or 27.3°F.
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| Temperature Records 11-13 April 2019 |
We can often go through April without a frost so three nights in a row is unusual especially as we are approaching the middle of the month. April should gradually be getting warmer not colder.
I had a quick check around the greenhouse and cold frame and everything seems to have survived okay. I didn't cover these lettuce seedlings last night (I forgot) but they look to have survived.
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| Mixed Lettuce Varieties |
I know from recording greenhouse temperature there's not a great deal of difference between greenhouse and outside temperature on cold nights. Everything looked to have made it through the cold in the cold frame too. My only concern was for some cauliflower plants purchased last week but they looked fine this morning.
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| Cauliflower - All Year Round |
It appears that our young plants at home have survived the frost but there no way of knowing what damage has been done to any fruit blossom. At home we have apple, pear and cherry blossom out. You may be wondering about how our tomato plants have survived and the answer is they've done alright still tucked up in their seed packets. Hopefully, the cold nights should relent in the early part of next week and some serious seed sowing can begin.
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