OtleyLad
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Frost Warning - Saturday nightThere is a forecast of a -3C frost here (West Yorkshire) saturday night. If you have anything tender in the greenhouse and it not heated, make sure its very well insulated!
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sickpup
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i live in sunderland should i cover my shallots and onions?
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sellickbhoy
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i put my shallots and onions out in december - they are in a raised bed with good drainage, so excess water isn't a problem
anyway, they've coped with the cold well enough and are coming along nicely - so i think they'll survive a frost
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James
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I think shallots & onions will be OK with cold weather.
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yummersetter
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thanks - it's forecasted on Metcheck for us in South Somerset for the next three nights at least. I'll have to wrap the kiwi and the replacement pluot that arrived last week. Oh and the peaches and apricots are flowering, so they could do with some overnight fleece.
I don't have much that's vulnerable planted outside yet, but the frost can do a lot of damage to just-emerging leaves and flowers on the fruit trees
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mbeirnes
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It will give the brasica seedlings a hardening off over here (4 miles down the road) 
They are in the poly tunnelso have some protection!
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gil
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And on the [north-]west side of the country too : -2C predicted for tomorrow night, for D&G, Cumbria, Lancashire. So for being west, it's not much warmer.
There was snow on the hills this morning, and sleet today on the lower ground to the Solway.
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gil
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The temperatures turned out rather lower than forecast.
Was originally forecast as -2
By yesterday/Saturday evening, Met Office was predicting -4.
Actual temp at the weather station up the valley last night was -6.9
So those of you further south expecting cold nights in the next few days..... it might be colder than you think.
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judith
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Yep. There was a pretty hard frost last night - water in the bowls was frozen solid.
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mbeirnes
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Didnt happen here
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Bodrighy
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Frost? What frost. Checked the thermometer and it did get cold.....about 5 c whatever that is in old money but no frost. Just really windy.
Pete
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