Mother Nature loves to show that she’s in control. A late spring frost can be fatal to a gardener’s young plants, fruit trees and crops. In this episode I’ll run through my top tips so you can protect your plants and seedlings using a variety of techniques to prevent frost damage in your garden or allotment.
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Excellent tips Katrina. I am more likely to get heatwaves where I am and I’ve found upturned polystyrene foam boxes great at insulating my new seedlings, I wonder if they would also help against the cold? Get ones with lids and put all your seed trays inside?
All excellent tips. Thanks !
Fabulous idea 🤗🤗🤗
The car is a brilliant idea! I have never thought of that before but it does get a lot of sun in the mornings! My car official became an "adult" this year. I wonder if cars age different like dog/ cat years?! lol Anyways, it will certainly work for us as i don't often use it and i think 2020 or 21 i used it so little, it started growing things in the window creases! lol
Question: They are predicting 1c in London and i have planted out perpetual spinach, sugar snap peas and the rhurbarb/ asparagus is coming up. I have carrots and beetroot in a b&q free standing cold frame and dill and kale in cold frame boxes on the garden table. Sunflowers are in pots against a fence on top of the main bed. I only have net curtains atm and one of them is on a teepee with bird netting to protect the spinach. What needs covering?
I know what you mean about the house being a jungle atm! I moved the crate wormery out of the workshop area as we started getting fungus gnats and didn't want a breeding source in the house. The outside loo and unsealed "workshop" is connected to the kitchen back door by some full length conservatory windows and a door to the garden, with a thin flat roof. The washing machine makes a great laptop desk, when not in use and i have made a chair from pallets and cushions from old garden chairs. It makes a quiet little nook area to record my videos, see the wildlife and garden to catch up on some cool youtube videos, without disturbing the household.
Our child usually brings back runner beans or sunflowers as a part of KS1. We have so many sunflower seeds, even with the random squirrel appearance that we can replant them. Last year, we found a hidden pod of dried runner beans but i can't remember when they planted them to bring them home so i accidentality planted them the same time as the sugar snap peas in mid Feb! They are currently in the utility area in 2 x 25cm/ 10 litre fabric pots, with teepees and are over 240cm high now! Whoops! lol
Some of our tomatoes, not indoors, seem to be suffering in the utility area too. That have more natural light but not the constant temps, 10 – 20 c.
It is a west facing garden, which we didn't even think about for our first house and first renovation buy but we try to make it work. We can grow more than our basement flat at least! We 4 miles further out of London and now pay 3x council tax and the services are terrible. Main one being health and paediatric care, street cleaning doesn't happen and the roads are bad. Lots of banks and shops have closed down recently too.
Is it the same where you are?
I’m so impressed you guys in the UK climates can grow tomatoes and peppers. Awesome channel!!
car idea is great 🚗 never heard that before. I'm actually confused bc I thought I heard somewhere that watering helps keep the cellular walls from exploding but now I'm trying to Google it and I can't find anything lol
My grandmother, a Mohawk babushka, was known to keep smudge pots smoldering all night in her garden when there was a danger of frost. I was very young but I remember that the smoke somehow stayed low to ground. Smoke particles tend to absorb moisture from the air. The more moisture present in the air, the more a particle of smoke will absorb and the heavier it gets. Heavy, moisture-laden smoke particles do not disperse as easily as the lighter, dry ones do. The smoke kept the plants from freezing. The smoke raises the dew point in the air and caps the garden in a layer of smoke trapping the day’s ground heating.
Thank You
I did the same, but my blossoms have fallen off? I have never grown fruit trees before!
Timely film looking at the forecast tonight. Thanks for the ideas.
Katrina, just to let you know the Blue Tits are taking nesting material into the box this morning! so don't give up hope just yet 😃 Love all the tips especially the candle one x
Thank you .Very good tips . David
Exceptionally good tips, frost can do lots of damage, hope all your seedlings are safe 👍
Great tips! I have all my seedlings in my wooden potting shed, so I don't think I'll try the candle technique! The husband uses it when camping out in his van. He says it absolutely works!
We have lots of bubble wrap we used on our windows over winter, do you think this can be repurposed in place of fleece?
Great idea Katrina putting seedlings in your car👍have never thought of that.
My poly looks just like yours and I will be putting fleece over today as we in Northants and expecting-2 at least tonight for couple of nights. My apples will be ok my cherry plum and peach blossom is going over now so I am hoping they will just have missed the danger time. But my pear in full flower and it’s too big to cover. I didn’t think about not watering so Thankyou for that tip
Great tips, thank you. Let's keep our fingers crossed : )
It's gonna be a cold one tonight. I was thinking about putting some plants in the car this morning, so great minds think a like eh? I believe the upturned pot technique has been debunked. The candle lets out a specific amount of heat so the pot makes no difference to the overall warming. Unless you have serious insulation on your greenhouse the heat isn't gonna make any difference as glass is a very poor insulator. On my first year at my allotment i put bubble wrap all around my greenhouse and i had a little parafin heater, but it hardly made any difference (other than the noxious fumes produced). Otherwise good tips though.
Something to learn from you
We have had amazing Sun and Blue skies up here in the North of the Scottish Highlands recently. Temp now dropping a little today and apparently some snow on the horizon again! Grrrr lol Got to love the Scottish weather 🙈
When space is limited, variety is not as possible. Regardless of the crop, some years will be good and some years will be bad. For early flowering things, late frost is always a danger.
With a large area I add as much variety as I can. What produces in any one year, produces. What doesn't produce, doesn't.
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Very helpful
Thanks you
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