Moderate frost with temperatures below zero degrees Celsius can be widely destructive to vegetation especially tender plants such as geraniums, begonias, peppers, and tomatoes. Low temperatures often lead to frost damage. The damage occurs when ice crystals form within plant tissue, damaging their cells. Leaves and tender new growth are usually affected first.
Plants get damaged when ice crystals form within plant tissue, damaging their cells.
Frost protection is important. Keep an eye on the weather. This week on Monday and Tuesday nights the Irish The Irish Meteorological Service predicted this silent frost! We have a lot of tomatoes that recently have been moved out of the house to the tunnel #1 and #2. Tender tomato seedlings which have been grown and nurtured from seed over the past month. It would be a disaster if they were taken by the frost after all the work. We moved them back into the comfort of the house for a couple of nights and we covered the remaining plants in the tunnel with some soft plastic we saved back last summer when we replaces some new appliances in our kitchen. My wife was thinking ahead that day!
As you will see from some of the pictures below the temperature is moving from nearly 40 degrees in the tunnel to below freezing in the space of a couple of days. Thankfully it was only a short frosty snap and we have returned to beautiful weather today and for the next few days.
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