[Salmo]

The full extent of 18 degrees of frost December is now apparent on my overwintered brassicas.

January King cabbage -  now starting to rot.
Spring caulis - 3 out of five are dead.
White sprouting broccoli - 1 out of five gone limp and stem rotting.
Purple sprouting brocoli -  2 out of five gone limp and stem rotting.

How have others fared?

[kermit]

6 PSB, 5 kale and 15 leeks (ok not brassica but Im looking for sympathy!) - all carped it.  Rotting away nicely now as the thaw finally kicks in at my small back garden patch.  Still, enjoying my parsnips now that I can get to them, and they are soooo sweet 

Also, means I can get cracking clearing the 3 wee beds for spring.

[SkipRat]

Also fared badly, lost all spring caulis, purple broccoli, and even the kale isnt looking too healthy, Spring cabbage seems to be recovering so all may not be lost as its one of my favourite veg. Hopefully as a bonus the frost/ice has decimated the slug population this year.

[solway cropper]

Most of the cabbages are gone and I saw that the swedes had also rotted when I went to lift one today. Some leeks are slimy but most have survived. Good job I managed to freeze plenty of stuff before the frosts.

[TheSpartacat]

My kale has gone a funny white colour. I thought it was some sort of powdery mildew first, but it wasn't there in Nov before the snow, but there in Jan once everything had defrosted.

Frost damage? I thought kale were hardier?
*confused*

[Comfortably Numb]

Luckily down here in the tropical south, everything seems to have survived OK 

Even the slugs 

Found two entwined together on the plot yesterday. Hope they enjoyed it before the spade came crashing down on them 

[DD.]

Decimated my caulis. Got about 2 left from 20.

[tosca100]

Lost all my psb, kale looks a bit weedy but might get some off. Leeks small but OK.

[Swing Swang]

No brassica losses to frost (only grew kales this year), but the survivors look like broekie lace due to the pigeons

[Rangerkris]

Kale and spinach made it through i got some cabbages that look like there about to start hearting up.  The netting kept most of the snow off i think.

[realfood]

My winter brassicas have coped well with the Winter in Glasgow. They were under debris netting, against the pigeons, but it was well supported with stout timber posts which stopped the snow from flattening them.

[juliec]

Decimated my caulis. Got about 2 left from 20.

glad it was not my novice growing which turned my beautiful white caulis a moldy yellow.

I love this site for the honesty and pain we all feel when mother nature serves us a curve ball!

happy growing 2011

Jools

[tontom]

Lost the 5 remaining sprouts , all the winter cauli's a few onions, swedes haven
'nt come to much but on the plus side all the leeks made it and also the spring cabs are starting to hearten and the snips made it and are very sweet even if minus leaves