The cold weather THIS WEEK. Arghh. Warning

fimonkey

Ooh thanks for the warning, I live in Bournemouth and have a sheltered garden. I'm a novice gardener so wuold apreciate advice please.

Tomorrow night it will drop to 4 celcius feeling like 1. I have planted out tomoatoes (cherry toms) that are about 5 inches tall. Onions, carrots and 2 courgette plants in my planter. I don't have any fleece to cover these, what can I use instead? Are bubble wrap or cardboard any good? Also do I place this directly on the plants or in a kind of 'tent' around them?

I also have plug plants of snap dragons in containers planted out yesterday (I can bring these into the summer house) and plug plants of bizzie lizzies which have been out for about 3 weeks now and have their first flowers. Do I need to bring these in too? (There will be hardly any room for them, I will have to move some furniture lol).

I have spring onions in a grow bag, do these need to come in? And what about strawberries in a planter, they have flowers on them already and have been out for a week.

And finally I have two moneymaker tomato plants outside in my plastic tent thing, - they're about 2.5ft tall already - should I cover these? And if so do I cover the whole plant or just the soil?

[Deleted User]

gosh your tomatoes are outside very early. If you have any canes or sticks then make a tent of some sort from sheet/newspaper/wallpaper anything. I wouldn`t bother moving anything just use a light barrier of some sort.

gazza975526570

fimonkey wrote: »

Ooh thanks for the warning, I live in Bournemouth and have a sheltered garden. I'm a novice gardener so wuold apreciate advice please.

Tomorrow night it will drop to 4 celcius feeling like 1. I have planted out tomoatoes (cherry toms) that are about 5 inches tall. Onions, carrots and 2 courgette plants in my planter. I don't have any fleece to cover these, what can I use instead? Are bubble wrap or cardboard any good? Also do I place this directly on the plants or in a kind of 'tent' around them?

I also have plug plants of snap dragons in containers planted out yesterday (I can bring these into the summer house) and plug plants of bizzie lizzies which have been out for about 3 weeks now and have their first flowers. Do I need to bring these in too? (There will be hardly any room for them, I will have to move some furniture lol).

I have spring onions in a grow bag, do these need to come in? And what about strawberries in a planter, they have flowers on them already and have been out for a week.

And finally I have two moneymaker tomato plants outside in my plastic tent thing, - they're about 2.5ft tall already - should I cover these? And if so do I cover the whole plant or just the soil?

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So many questions!

Personally id bring inside your bedding plants and courgettes

Spring onions and carrots will be fine. Strawberris should be ok - could lose the odd fruit from open flowers but should be ok.

I dont do toms but they are very tender and your very early - id cover them if you can. Anything is better than nothing - fleece, bubble wrap, newspaper etc

[Deleted User]

last night was fine. 8.2 and cloud cover with a little rain so excellent in all ways. I have put my tomatoes back in the greenhouse. One night down and one to go and then I may contemplate planting more out, such as my sweetcorn modules and a squash or two.

We planted lots of baby flowers on the allotment yesterday and also red cabbages and kohl rabi and they will have welcomed last night`s weather

I am watching the weather for tonight and not taking anything foregranted. It took just a few minutes to move my tender tomatoes and was time well spent

mardatha

Wasn't very cold here either, cars weren't white. Not moving my seeds again, can't be assd plus they lived through a night of white cars and iced puddles so think they will be fine

ALIBOBSY

The met office/bbc were predicted dull and intermittent showers last sunday/mon here and it was baking hot all day-weather net got it right.

They are both predicting dry, warm weather for the rest of the week-DD1's birthday party is on sunday and we have a bouncy castle coming so fingers crossed they are right.

Lowest predicted temps off either site seem to be tonight for around 2-3 degrees so may throw a net curtain over the greenhouse bench just in case.

ali x

[Deleted User]

my order for shade netting arrived today so I have spent a while cutting it up to go over several areas in my garden, including a small greenhouse and a patiogro. Its huge swings here re temperatures, it is very hot again and the plants find it hard to cope and so do I with all that watering. I decided that all I am doing tonight is to throw a few fleeces about and also leave the netting in place. Even my sweet peas are all burnt at the tips.

I can`t wait to get more stuff out as it`ll reduce the workload by a lot

peter_the_piper

Lit heaters where the more delicate plants are but the tougher ones will just have to rough it. Luckily the Beeb are predicting 6 tonight then rising the rest of the week.

stumpycat

There was quite a bit of frost here overnight, so nothing's being chucked outside too early here!

[Deleted User]

4.0 in the air was the lowest here last night but the leaves of plants on the ground feel very cold. Phew, a lucky escape and all plants will be ok. Now to finish putting out what I can today and then I`ll just have to wait for 3 more weeks for the tender ones and by then the later sown flower seeds will be bigger and stronger. I haven`t counted my babies in little modules but I think there are 100 cosmos plus 400+ others. I am having fewer flowers next year