When is threat of frost over

So far, that's worked for me. If I cover my remaining tender plants that night, can usually get another week or two 'fore I have to harvest them. If you can part your car or truck next to your garden, the frost will be absorbed by it, and a light frost will be avoided. The metal of a vehicle seems particularly attracted to frost, but a hay wagon or other large object is helpful too.

Leeks can survive a hard frost? This my first year planting them and I did not know that. I'm glad to hear it, because I was a little late getting them in and our average first frost is only 5 weeks from now.

Thanks for the information, Catherine. What kind of mulch can I use on the parsnips? My family folk lore has passed down the theory that the day you first hear a cicada, you have 15 weeks until your first frost. Last year my husband was one day off, and i was a week off. This year i was on the exact day of our first frost and my husband was a week off. Pretty good for folk lore. For us here in Tampa Fla anything close to a frost or freeze will cause damage. Most if not all landscaping is grown in south Fla then shipped up to us.

Tropical plants just will not handle cold temps. In a "normal year" we get two maybe three cold nights a winter. Last year we had ten days in a row of hard freeze. Is this our new "normal? We had our first frost last night, Oct. May do it again tonight. Very early this year. My farmer grandfather said frosts generally come on or after the full moon, which pulls in high air pressure from the north-west.

As of Sept 30, , we still haven't had frost in my town of Dublin, NH! I will say that I didn't grow regular tomatoes again this year.

Instead I grew cherry tomatoes--almost all ripened up! It was a nice long season. Hope you had some gardening successes! Tomatoes in British Columbia. I uprooted my Gardeners Delight cherry tomatoes from my balcony just before our cold snap in September. Now it's warm again. I picked off the leaves, and hung whole plants upside down to dry indoors. The tomatoes ripen a few at a time making a nice fresh snack.

The tiniest will be too small to fry, but provide bright colour contrast in the arrangement! Perhaps they will make a spooky Halloween decoration for my door! It is readily apparent that the phrase "average last freeze date" is quite relative, as most sites have a week difference between the earliest and latest dates. For some of these locations, the incredibly-early last freeze of spring between March was among the earliest on record.

On the opposite spectrum, for several places, the latest freeze of the past 30 years occurred in mid-May Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Follow us on YouTube. Disclaimer Information Quality Help Glossary. April 28 May 6 May April 16, May 19, April 12 April 26 May 4. March 31, May 15, April 21 May 4 May April 11, May 28, April 10, Grand Island airport.

April 9, May 17, May 29, Hastings airport. March 9, Current Hazards. Local Radar. Rivers and Lakes. Climate and Past Weather. Frost can be very localized and variable across a small area. Many of these locations represent locations that typically will be a few degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside.

If you live in a rural or a low lying area, your first frost could be earlier than the dates presented below. Conversely, if you live in a heavily urbanized area, your first frost could be later than the dates presented. Low Temperature of 36 degrees or lower. Low Temperature of 32 degrees or lower. Low Temperature of 28 degrees or lower. Period of record is indicated for each individual site. Sites represent the nearest available official observation with a significant period of record to each one of the towns indicated.