g'day brock,
if youa re frost free then you can plant depending on the asepct of
your garden ie.,. does it face north and get good sun through the day?
there are 2 sorts o frosts white not so disasterous frost, or black
frost so named because all the sensative plants and then some go black
but you didn't see a frost.
the way i see it white frost forms when you have a dew on the ground
and the ground temp drops to say around 4c, the temp drop usually
occurs when the air above whic is colder settles on the ground or cold
air is carried in on the breezes. for this frost you can cover things
up once you determine that a frost is likely.white frost usualy appear
just at the break of dawn before the sun. also frost seems to form
more on the top of mulch as the mulch is moister and warmer than the
air above it.
the balck frost for me occurs much earlier n the night or can do as it
comes along with a cold front and usually when the ground moisture is
dry, i sued to get up in the gray dwan and hose the plants off for
white frost but as soon as i had a black frost all that previous water
was wasted as the plants where now gone.
so i cover things up now and take my chances.
so maybe where you may not experience white frost you could get a
black frost?
usually where i am cloud cover overnight means no white frost.
up here after the frost cn mean as late as teh second week in
september, you need to have some idea so you can pick when to plant
summer crops out as the frost and end as early as around 2nd week in
august. can be a bit of a lottery. best picked from what the pressure
systems are doing to cause air movement from the south to here and
what cold fronts they have moving through.
On Wed, 27 May 2009 15:10:57 -0700 (PDT), Brock
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