On 08/01/09 12:26, Alan Johnson wrote:
Sacha wrote:
-6C here last night and a white start to the day.


It was about -20°C here in northern Germany two nights ago. The lowest
temperature was recorded about 50 miles away at -28°C (Bad Lippspringe).
It was only about -15°C last night. I haven't seen the good side of
freezing point for over a week. It rarely climbs above -10°C during the
day. My leeks look dead. I'm just glad the price of heating oil has
fallen. We've just ordered 4000 litres for around £2000. In the spring
3000 litres cost us around £3000.

Regards


But this is exactly what we need. Deep, deep cold for weeks and weeks.
If you have dug your soil over in November and left in in clods , then
it will break down beautifully in the Spring when you start to till it.

Also , the deep frozen ground will kill loads of slugs (so, they tell me)