Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
3rd frost in 4 mornings here, not white but frozen car roofs
Frosts?
- Thread starter ACEngineering
- Start date
Haven't ventured out to look at the spuds in my garden yet. Lost 10 acres of earlies a few years ago. Neighbours top dressed theirs with some N and got them kick started again. We were organic though......
Mine too. Not had such a total strike before. Will they come again? or total loss?
Appreciated. Thank you
- Location
- North West England
Had 3 fair frosts so far this week, car, pickup & 4x4 windscreen and windows frozen etc. Had to bring sunflowers back in house and cover raised planter up overnight.
- Location
- Huntingdon
im on a FB allotment type group, last few days it has been filled with pictures of black , withered and generally not very well runner bean plants. mine are still in the cold frame. hoping to get them out this weekend but still cold at night.
Who can have the earliest runner beans is a bit like a willy measuring competition round here.
(and id rather have shorter but not frost bitten )
Who can have the earliest runner beans is a bit like a willy measuring competition round here.
(and id rather have shorter but not frost bitten )
- Location
- Hereford
Took our tomatoes and runner beans .
- Location
- Hereford
Isn't an organic farmer someone who spreads fertiliser and sprays when no-one else is watching .
I have an 'organic' friend who can't wait for the Royal Welsh Show to start so he can get some fert on while his neighbours are all at the show . He is happier now with GPS cos he can go in the dark and not leave stripes !!!
Ummmm......does he not leave wheel marks ? TBH, I find all this spraying at night hard to believe. Soil Association can, and do go through peoples accounts.
I love them
Netherfield
Member
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Knocked the most of the Rhododendrons in the garden for six, yet some blossom on the apple trees look to have survived and the pears look to have already set fruit.
Have not grown any spuds this year, missed ordering sets last back end, and then when lockdown came I think every Tom, Dick and Harry must have decided to grown some at home and there was none of what wanted left to buy online, saved my back digging them in and out again though.
Have not grown any spuds this year, missed ordering sets last back end, and then when lockdown came I think every Tom, Dick and Harry must have decided to grown some at home and there was none of what wanted left to buy online, saved my back digging them in and out again though.
- Location
- Hereford
I don't think he sprays at night . Just fert . Runs through with the chainharrows next day and wheel marks are gone !
I live on homemade runner bean chutney, need a gas mask in the kitchen when its being made though.
Anybody know the trick/timing regarding watering spuds to stop the frost getting them or have i dreamt it?
Same here, Spuds under a plastic tent were nipped, Grape gone*, figs looking iffy and some other odds and ends hammered. Purple Sprouting ok but also covered "just in case".
Greenhouse overflowing every night at the moment, moving stuff in and out daily...
* Two vineyards local to us... I wonder how they got on? Think some commerical growers use heaters ??
Before the sun gets to them I believe.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Different story today. 40 acresof black potatoes
- Location
- South Wales UK
Frost had a lot here too
- Location
- Hereford
Dad used to say ....wash the frost off and they will be ok . If the sun takes the frost off then they will suffer