[mashbintater]

..........As opposed to ground frost, is it just as bad tho'?    We're forecast it tomorrow night, thanks Mash 

[Shop Keep]

Air temperature is taken a few feet above ground level. The temperature at ground level could be as much as 4 degrees colder, so a temperature reeding of 4 degrees could still give a ground frost.  An air frost is when the temperature is 0 degrees or less so the ground temperature could be -4 degrees. so they are just as bad.

[peapod]

Thanks shopkeep, that taught me a new thing today too 

[Gandan57]

Yes an air frost is worse than a ground frost.

[Paul Plots]

Yes an air frost is worse than a ground frost.

Neither are nice for tender plants. 

[mashbintater]

Fleecing my spud bed is going to be fun in this wind    Thanks everyone 

[Paul Plots]

Fleecing my spud bed is going to be fun in this wind    Thanks everyone 

Grass mowings over them and a sprinkle from the hose may help if you have enough grass. I've used grass for the last few years and it normally works a treat. 

[Jamie Butterworth]

Seen as though there is an impending frost for many of us this week, i thought it would be good to see where and when people get them, a bit like the snow watch one but for frosts

[mashbintater]

No grass on my plot, and no-one else had rushed to protect their spuds so I just cloched my corn & beans. Here's hopimg for the best 

[kermit]

Just went outside. V cold here. Forecasting 3degrees tonight. Glad my new wee electric heater for mini plastic greenhouse arrived yesterday!  Hope everything else is ok. In particular all the flowers on my new currant bushes...

[sarajane]

Had frosst on the car the last 2 mornings in Chester at 4.00 in the morning. I'm still tucked up at that time but the Oh is up for work then so everything gets tucked up for the night. Too much hard work has gone into starting the plants off so see the frost get em.

[Paul Plots]

The BBC weather forecast was a bit confusing this evening. It warned of air frosts in rural areas down south but when I looked on the BBC tv’s interactive weather page the temperatures appeared to be higher than predicted else where.

I guess a nose out of the door will work as reliably as listening to the weather forecast. 

[New shoot]

We got away with it last night but there is a definate nip in the air this morning.  I fleeced the greenhouse benches last night just to be on the safe side.

[muckshifter]

The roofs were coverd in white frost here at 4.45 am today,all evidence of it gone by 6.30 a.m.

[arugula]

Low +5.2 C at 05:48.