[sweet nasturtium]

I can't believe there's a frost already!  I'm so confused.  I've spent the last few years wishing for a proper cold winter and it never seems to happen.  I'd better get up the plot and get that banana plant indoors...

[muntjac]

im forcasting a bitch of a hard winter .... ski's n snowboots with luck  

[sweet nasturtium]

Blinkin hope so.  There's too many weird things happening to the weather.  A good hard winter will hopefully make it all seem normal again.

[slowef]

we didn't get much of a frost - although it was a bit nippy - tonight seems colder - i wonder if my  :roll: dahlias will last another day

Where is Hants I was Surrey before my daughter Hants.  

Dahlias here are ok but in semi-shelter of the house.  Geraniums by swimming pool got blackened off but the ones in baskets are fine :?

[gobs]

Yeh, the kids are wishing every year, I hope it now happens as you say.

[SnooziSuzi]

Dahlias here are ok but in semi-shelter of the house.  Geraniums by swimming pool got blackened off but the ones in baskets are fine :?

Swimming Pool!??   There's another report out today that they are making a film near to here because it looks so run down!   :roll: Swimming pool indeed!  

[muntjac]

yeh the houses of parliament want one now ......  :x waste fff more money :x

[sweet nasturtium]

I'm sure they could take a dip in the Thames if need be.

[mushroom]

2C @ 0500 in sunny southend. I'd like a hard frost to kill all the whitefly!

[Sadgit]

Dahlias here are ok but in semi-shelter of the house.  Geraniums by swimming pool got blackened off but the ones in baskets are fine :?

Swimming Pool!??   There's another report out today that they are making a film near to here because it looks so run down!   :roll: Swimming pool indeed!  

Thats Southerners for you Suzi... Bah... We don't need any lardidar swimming pools we have our tin baths... and we are happy with them...

[WG.]

Geraniums by swimming pool got blackened off

Is this it slowef?     Swimming Pool

[gobs]

[Annie]

Reading this I had a horrible thought,my OH was pleased with himself for watering the greenhouse yesterday and the thought was,he would have closed the doors,surley?
  He hadn`t,doors opened wide,frost not yet all gone on the patch..nothing looks dead but a few things distinctly droopy especially by the door I hope they revive as the sun hits them.I will nip out later and harvest all the ripe stuff and the last of the outdoor courgettes as we`ve forcast another frost tomorrow.
The daylilies in the paddling [pool look ok though

[jacnal]

2C @ 0500 in sunny southend. I'd like a hard frost to kill all the whitefly!

And get the slugs disappearing too. Do they die off when it's cold? Actually, I could sort of answer that one - found a slug on my salad greens last night which had been in the fridge, and it had survived 3 days  :shock: . It's now in the compost caddy... And a little snail too, which seemed quite okay and was looking for a way out to God knows where on my worktop  :shock: .

[mushroom]

ound a slug on my salad greens last night which had been in the fridge, and it had survived 3 days  :shock: . It's now in the compost caddy... And a little snail too, which seemed quite okay and was looking for a way out to God knows where on my worktop  :shock: .

I think they just move slower as it gets colder - it really has to freeze to get rid of em. Saying that though - it would need a rather sharp frost (like -5C or better) to properly get the slug population down I reckon - enough to freeze the topsoil and the (rotting and therefore warm) vegetable matter in the surface soil.

Hopefully they haven't got some component acting as an antifreeze in them, like zooplankton and cold-water sea slugs :shock: