Here in Western Mass, just south of the VT/NH border I am looking out at
a garden full of blooming dahlias, marigolds, impatiens, begonia, and
even a reblooming fancy shasta daisy that burst out in flowers this week.

It's two days after the latest frost date ever recorded and we have had
no frost. We may get a frost tonight--the weather reports are being
coy--but if we don't get one tonight, it could be another week until we
get one.

We had 14 inches of rain here last week, too. Ten on Saturday and 4 the
rest of the week. It left a bunch of people homeless and took out the
road I use to visit my mom in Keene.

The leaves are coming down right on schedule, but there was almost no
color this year because of the combination of rain and no frost.

Is frost late in your neck of the woods?
--Jenny

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:02:29 -0400, Jenny
wrote:

Here in Western Mass, just south of the VT/NH border I am looking out at
a garden full of blooming dahlias, marigolds, impatiens, begonia, and
even a reblooming fancy shasta daisy that burst out in flowers this week.

It's two days after the latest frost date ever recorded and we have had
no frost. We may get a frost tonight--the weather reports are being
coy--but if we don't get one tonight, it could be another week until we
get one.

We had 14 inches of rain here last week, too. Ten on Saturday and 4 the
rest of the week. It left a bunch of people homeless and took out the
road I use to visit my mom in Keene.

The leaves are coming down right on schedule, but there was almost no
color this year because of the combination of rain and no frost.

Is frost late in your neck of the woods?
--Jenny


I don't expect it until mid-December or January. We didn't have any
last year.

I live where it's warm.

On 10/21/05 7:02 PM, in article ,
"Jenny" wrote:

Here in Western Mass, just south of the VT/NH border I am looking out at
a garden full of blooming dahlias, marigolds, impatiens, begonia, and
even a reblooming fancy shasta daisy that burst out in flowers this week.

It's two days after the latest frost date ever recorded and we have had
no frost. We may get a frost tonight--the weather reports are being
coy--but if we don't get one tonight, it could be another week until we
get one.

We had 14 inches of rain here last week, too. Ten on Saturday and 4 the
rest of the week. It left a bunch of people homeless and took out the
road I use to visit my mom in Keene.

The leaves are coming down right on schedule, but there was almost no
color this year because of the combination of rain and no frost.

Is frost late in your neck of the woods?
--Jenny


I had my first last night in southern NH; had to run the defroster this AM.
I cut all my daylily scapes and brought them in to see if I can coax the
last few buds to open.

Cheryl

Jenny expounded:

Is frost late in your neck of the woods?

Nothing here yet, although it's supposed to get down into the low 30's
tonight.
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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Ann said:

Jenny expounded:

Is frost late in your neck of the woods?

Nothing here yet, although it's supposed to get down into the low 30's
tonight.

Time to start checking the frost and freeze warnings every evening:

http://www.weather.com/maps/activity...tandfreezeadvi
sories_large.html?

http://tinyurl.com/aorlf

Be advised, any time the night is clear, the winds are calm and the
dewpoint is 32 or below, even when the predicted low is 40 degrees, you
might get frost in low-lying areas. The back end of my yard is slightly
lower than the surrounding properties and tends to frost. Absolutely
worry about frost when a chill day clears dramatically near sunset.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

Pat Kiewicz wrote:

Be advised, any time the night is clear, the winds are calm and the
dewpoint is 32 or below, even when the predicted low is 40 degrees, you
might get frost in low-lying areas. The back end of my yard is slightly
lower than the surrounding properties and tends to frost. Absolutely
worry about frost when a chill day clears dramatically near sunset.

Everything made it through last night except for some of the blossoms on
the impatiens on the NW corner of the house. Looks like we might have
Halloween Dahlias after all. Most interesting, some very tall yellow
dahlias that only produced two or three flowers all season, have been
blooming their heads off for the past week. I counted 12 blossoms
yesterday!

OTOH, the thick-stemmed yellow cosmos I posted about a while back never
bloomed at all, so late blooming is not their problem. They're just some
kind of cosmos deadbeats. g.

Weird!

--Jenny

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Pat Kiewicz wrote:


Be advised, any time the night is clear, the winds are calm and the
dewpoint is 32 or below, even when the predicted low is 40 degrees, you
might get frost in low-lying areas. The back end of my yard is slightly
lower than the surrounding properties and tends to frost. Absolutely
worry about frost when a chill day clears dramatically near sunset.
--

yet, still no frost. I already pulled the tomatoes except for one
yellow pear.
It is still kicking and in fact yesterday I picked half a pound of
tomatoes.
In the last four years, first frost was always before oct. 10.

simy1 said:


Pat Kiewicz wrote:


Be advised, any time the night is clear, the winds are calm and the
dewpoint is 32 or below, even when the predicted low is 40 degrees, you
might get frost in low-lying areas. The back end of my yard is slightly
lower than the surrounding properties and tends to frost. Absolutely
worry about frost when a chill day clears dramatically near sunset.
--

yet, still no frost. I already pulled the tomatoes except for one
yellow pear.
It is still kicking and in fact yesterday I picked half a pound of
tomatoes.
In the last four years, first frost was always before oct. 10.

We lucked out. I woke up in the middle of the night and had
trouble going back to sleep. It clouded up for a while and I
noticed that the temperature actually went *up* after 2am...
even though the skies were clearing at sunset and the dewpoint
was 32.

I'm bringing in the squash and pumpkins today, I think. We pulled
the tomatoes a couple of weekends ago because they were starting
to look blighted (and the weather was nice enough still to make it
enjoyable).
--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

down to 39o last night but no frost expected in Milwaukee near the lake for the next
week. good think cause DH is down in Florida visiting his parents this week (yup in
Sarasota hope Wilma doesnt move up the coast) and I gotta move my plants inside.
dont know WHAT I would do as some are quite heavy. Ingrid


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Jenny wrote in news:x8-dncqbm-
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Here in Western Mass, just south of the VT/NH border I am looking out at
a garden full of blooming dahlias, marigolds, impatiens, begonia, and
even a reblooming fancy shasta daisy that burst out in flowers this week.

It's two days after the latest frost date ever recorded and we have had
no frost. We may get a frost tonight--the weather reports are being
coy--but if we don't get one tonight, it could be another week until we
get one.

We had 14 inches of rain here last week, too. Ten on Saturday and 4 the
rest of the week. It left a bunch of people homeless and took out the
road I use to visit my mom in Keene.

The leaves are coming down right on schedule, but there was almost no
color this year because of the combination of rain and no frost.

Is frost late in your neck of the woods?
--Jenny

Zone 5 in the midwest (Lincoln, NE)

We had just a light hit-or-miss frost October 5 (could see some damage on
canna leaves and the yellow flowered bedding plant by the mailbox but the
tomatoes and peppers didn't show any).

Normal first frost date is Oct 10.

Finally Saturday night/Sunday morning we had our first real killing frost.
Bye bye tomatoes, peppers, and bedding plants.

Richard