Blummin Frost!!

i managed to get a nice tilth yesterday in which to plant my strawberry runners and, having done that, i looked at the cloche covering my recently planted Shallots and thought, "we won't be due a frost for a while".........

 

Quite a hard frost down here last night....Strawberries should be okay but shallots? 

makes em split into individual buls doesn't it?

They're pretty good at coping with cold.. must be all the layers ;-)

i had a -6 frost and my shallots loved it the spuds did not and they were fleeced and they got burnt badly 

Actually, yes.

A few years back, I stuck some in Mrs Digger's plot after we'd cleared it in June, just for the sake of sticking something in.

OK they didn't grow big, but they split alright without frost.