Frost

The last two nights have been extremely foggy, and a very hard frost. I had intended improvising cloches and polytunnels to keep the frost off of the young plants, but i was called into work. So today was the first i could get onto it.

Everything was white, caked in frost. All the bean plants were over. I tried to make a poly tunnel from an old poly bag but it wasnt high enough, so i ended up going out and buying a proper one, along with some fleece and bark chips, and mistletoe. The bark chips are to go around the young fruit bushes, and im sure i dont need to say what the mistletoe is for.

So now, the beans are under their nice new polytunnel, the spring cabbage and the early carrots are under layers of fleece, held in place with the bigger of the stones dug out of the plot recently. Sams bean plant, which this morning looked like the frost had finished it off, is now encased in a fleece tube held up with canes and tied on with garden twine. Some of the spring onions have improvised cloches made from plastic milk bottles, but i need more.

I managed to get another couple of feet of the 1st spits depth dug on the new plot, and about a sixth of the muck heap thrown onto the other side. Theres still lots to do there.

The two fruit bushes i put in today are the Loganberry and the Blackcurrent. The other two are positioned where i intend to plant them. I pulled a couple of raspberry suckers out, i think a barrier will be needed to keep the raspberries in their own space.