- It's third, November,
and the weather is cooling down
and I'm giving you a few ideas and tips
for frost hardiness of particular vegetables.
Like for example, here we have carrots,
they're under a mesh,
which is entirely about keeping pests off actually,
you see the carrots are very nice.
Wow, honestly, they're very nice carrots.
No dig, berlicum
and I'm not worried about the frost hardiness of them.
So it was just to show you what's here.
I'll just leave this.
I'm leaving this on cause actually I'm just
in case carrot root fly fly in.
As it happens,
a mesh cover like that is also, you know,
it'll give some frost protection if it was needed,
but carrots are fine.
You don't need to worry about carrots and nor do you need to
worry about these endive.
This escarole endive that we've been picking
for salad leaves and they're frost hardy.
They're more frost hardy than lettuce.
There's a few lettuce there that, well,
I'm going to chance it.
Basically, I haven't got time,
unfortunately, to do anything about it.
The frost that we're forecast tonight is a bit unexpected.
I'm going to put a cover on in a minute.
Just on one thing in particular.
Parsnips, that's good.
You know, as it cools down, they'll get sweeter.
There's some lettuce that, well,
I might even pick a few of them before dusk.
And beyond them are some frisee endive,
and they'll be fine in frost.
The chard, I pick the larger leaves this morning,
and the small ones they should be all right.
Chard has a certain frost hardiness.
Yeah, the frost and frost.
We're forecast minus one tonight, that's 30 Fahrenheit.
It's not too bad,
but the things that the vegetables are tender
because we haven't had any frost yet
and they need to kind of toughen up a bit.
So this first one will be a bit of a,
an interesting one.
Dill like that,
that could suffer a bit actually, but we'll see.
Whereas the endive that it's planted between will be fine.
Land crests here, that will be fine.
So none of...
Everything in this bed is frost hardy.
We got coriander, lovely cruiser coriander again,
frost hardy, fine, solid rocket frost hardy, should be good.
It might be a tiny bit of damage
to the softer outer leaves, again,
because they haven't really had the chance to get used to
being too cold yet.
Green frills mustard, likewise fine.
Whereas this one is interesting.
This is buckwheat here,
which I sewed as a cover crop grieving really too late.
It was sewn, well, it was sewn five weeks ago actually.
So you can see how little its grown.
Very pretty seedlings that would probably will be frosty,
which I don't mind, cause it's, you know,
I'm sewing it for that, it's just a cover crop
and then it will die in the winter.
This is one that I'm going to cover
and it's Chinese cabbage and they're lovely hearts,
as you can see.
A variety sativa, six sativa,
six from Switzerland,
and putting a fleece cover on like this
just over the top.
You know, it's probably not needed,
but it's peace of mind because for me,
these, these are valuable.
I put them in my salad bags hearts that we take apart.
So they contribute quite a lot to the mix and
doing this will just make sure
I'll sleep sounder tonight.
It's 30 grams per square meter fleece, it's quite thick.
And it'll just provide that insulating layer.
I may, may need to take it off in the morning.
We'll see.
I haven't put it on earlier than this because we've had
significant wind today, as well as the showers.
So you have to wait until late in the day
to do something like this.
Yeah, I think that will be all right.
I'll put just one stone or two.
There's quite a bit more about all of this
in my online course, too.
If you want to really get into
the nitty gritty of these kinds of things.
And otherwise I hope this video has given you some ideas.