{"id":1025,"date":"2020-05-15T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2020-05-15T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T08:54:19","slug":"lockdown-day-53-our-latest-late-frost-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ossettweather.com\/gardening2020\/lockdown-day-53-our-latest-late-frost-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Day 53 – Our Latest Late Frost Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We’ve had a series of very cold nights for the second week of May. The coldest early morning occurred on Thursday when the temperature fell to -0.4\u00b0C or 31.3\u00b0F.<\/div>
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As you can see from the values in the red box we’ve had a run of 4 frosty nights in a row. It’s the first time I’ve recorded a below 0\u00b0C (32\u00b0F) temperature beyond the first week of May. The previous record was -1.0\u00b0C (30.2\u00b0F) recorded on 06 May 2012 so Thursday extended that record by a week.<\/div>
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We had already taken the precaution of protecting as much as possible at the allotment. All our potatoes were covered with soil or compost and our strawberry flowers were protected with a covering of fleece and environmesh. Unfortunately, there are a few things that we don’t protect and in varying degrees these have been caught by the frost.<\/div>
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Our kiwis are susceptible to frost catching their young shoots.<\/div>
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This is our large fruited kiwi, although it has never fruited, and as expected the young leaves have been knocked back by the cold temperatures.<\/div>
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Our other kiwi is called Issai and has produced small fruits when it grew in our garden at home. It’s not off to a good start this year with the young shoots caught by the frost.<\/div>
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Finally, our grapevine growing around two sides of the shed has also suffered some damage.<\/div>
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Once again it’s the tender young shoots that have been nipped by the frost.<\/div>
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However, it’s not all bad news as in the perennial bed our irises are beginning to flower.<\/div>
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Hopefully, the nights will be warming up from now on and we can start to think about getting more tender vegetables like cucumbers, courgettes, sweet corn and Runner beans started.<\/p>

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We’ve had a series of very cold nights for the second week of May. The coldest early morning occurred on Thursday when the temperature fell to -0.4\u00b0C or 31.3\u00b0F. As you can see from the values in the red box we’ve had a run of 4 frosty nights in a row. 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