[rikknikk]

This is probably a silly question but its my 1st year!! I had plants outside last night but in a plastic greenhose and there was a frost, if this had effected my plants would I know straight away in the morning or could they now die over the next few days?

[bigben]

I lost some baby sprouts to frost about a month ago - the looked pretty sorry for themselves fairly quickly within a day I would say.

[prakash_mib]

depend on where you live rik. the frost is different in different places.
1. A cue to take from my plot neighbour. I havent seen him since he planted potatoes a month ago. I was bit sorry for him whenever i read about frost in our area and visit my plot to earth up in the evening. But tell you what none of hid potatoes are dying. all happily 2-4 inch tall and proud above the soil.
2. over the weekend I tried to pot my best okras and leave the rest to succumb to the cold. I have been moving potted okras in and out of plastic shelf greenhouse all this week and couple which I left to die in the paper pots are not giving up (well untill last night. I havent had a look this morning though)

bit confused with the frost.

[madcat]

This is probably a silly question but its my 1st year!! I had plants outside last night but in a plastic greenhose and there was a frost, if this had effected my plants would I know straight away in the morning or could they now die over the next few days?

It was a bit of a ground frost here - maybe a degree below - not good for tender unprotected plants, but most will be okay in a plastic greenhouse. What sort of plants have you got?
Cucumbers, tomatoes and sweetcorn might not like it and check their growth a bit, but most things will be fine.  If they look sad by the end of today, you will know that it was too cold. 

[victoria_plum]

I've only got two mini greenhouses backing onto the wall of the house.

It hadn't occurred to me that things would not be ok. I thought they'd be protected 

[galen]

I've only got two mini greenhouses backing onto the wall of the house.

It hadn't occurred to me that things would not be ok. I thought they'd be protected 

If they're backing onto the house they will pick up residue heat from walls etc and should be ok and protected.

I know I'm down south but my mini greenhouses in the garden (backing onto the house)   haven't dropped below 5c for overnight for some time now.

[Jay The Digger]

I am lucky enough to have a weather station less than 30 paces from plot, and how delighted was I to find it on Wunderground.com.  I get a 15 minute update on conditions 24 hours a day.

The temperature dropped to 0.4C last night and while this didn't produce a hard frost, My tomatoes in the polytunnel look a little floppy.  The tips of some of the leaves have lost all structure.  The max/min thermometer didn't go below 4C inside the tunnel.

Another sharp drop is predicted here tonight, so the fleece is out in force.

Experience tells me that they will suffer a fair bit of damage before they sulk, but how many consecutive nights of below 4C can they suffer?

[Hey Jude]

I feel like I'm doing the 'greenhouse hokey cokey' each morning and then at night - you put your seedlings in, your seedlings out, in out in out, I want to plant them out.............!

[theakston_uk]

I feel like I'm doing the 'greenhouse hokey cokey' each morning and then at night - you put your seedlings in, your seedlings out, in out in out, I want to plant them out.............!

Just as long as you don't 'Shake them all about' you should be OK

[mumofstig]

Just as long as you don't 'Shake them all about' you should be OK
 

well, at least not when the neighbours can see 

[Paul Plots]

I feel like I'm doing the 'greenhouse hokey cokey' each morning and then at night - you put your seedlings in, your seedlings out, in out in out, I want to plant them out.............!

Just as long as you don't 'Shake them all about' you should be OK

Keep going with the "in and out"... warmer nights on the way - - - - - eventually

[fletch]

I'm hoping that this change of wind direction at the weekend to a Southerly will last a while, night time temps of above 5C so everything is going into the greenhouse whether it likes it or not (where's that fingers crossed smiley?).

[Paul Plots]

I'm hoping that this change of wind direction at the weekend to a Southerly will last a while, night time temps of above 5C so everything is going into the greenhouse whether it likes it or not (where's that fingers crossed smiley?).

I agree with you about the weather but  people living around Gatwick and Heathrow might have enjoyed a continued blast from the north and Iceland though... peace and quiet for a few days more before normality returns to the skies. 

[blackbob]

I've only got two mini greenhouses backing onto the wall of the house.

It hadn't occurred to me that things would not be ok. I thought they'd be protected 

If they're backing onto the house they will pick up residue heat from walls etc and should be ok and protected.

I know I'm down south but my mini greenhouses in the garden (backing onto the house)   haven't dropped below 5c for overnight for some time now.

-1.7c here last night.it's true we are in for a warm up.but come thursday a quite potent northerly looks to be on the cards.how far south it gets we will have to wait for the 06z run to clarify things a bit.

[bigben]

We have had ground frost in Sheffield for the last two night. I earthed up my spuds (in pots) earlier in the week but of course they keep popping thru and the pots are now full. I noticed this morning that one had been "nipped" by the frost and was looking sorry for itself. I am going to get some fleece before the next lot of frost arrives.