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Re: frost..."dangerously low temps"


>Buy yourself a hi-lo thermometer from the hardware store.  You can set it
>every day and record the high and low temperatures right where the plants
>are.  Remember the coldest time is in the early morning.  If you watch the
>weather on TV or look in the paper whenever you can, it will be no time at
>all before you can guess what the weather will be and wrap your plants
>when needed.

Good advice, but perhaps someone in the Met Office or similar can advise on
how they measure low temperatures. I believe it is at 2 metres above the
ground, so we shouldn't be bandying about temperatures measured at ground
level in our gardens as records etc., just using them for the effect on our
plants.

Jim Mann Taylor
United Kingdom
e-mail: j.mann.taylor@clara.net




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