Whoa, no way! Frost in July, yikes. My min/max said we got down to 6C, but tonite's supposed to be cold(er) again. I understand the Broadview area went down to 2C. I'm in the Yorkton area - I can't recall where you're located? Around Saskatoon?

Ohhhhhh sorry to hear/see that. I know...our lowest has been 3 so far. It does make gardening frustrating when this happens! :-(

Sierra

I am 65km NW of Regina, on the east side of Last Mountain Lake, just off Highway 20. My yard is really frost prone as we built in a bush that is lower down but the house is on a small rise, I think the cold air flows into our yard and is trapped by the bush. The low at the house was 5C but the house is brick so that reading is unreliable. If it is going to be colder tonight, I may just get up at 3:00 a.m. and start the sprinkler in the veggie garden. In looking at the lows for last night, the area east of Regina - Indian Head, Broadview etc. were the coldest, on the Environment Canada website they show Broadview with a low of 0.

That is horrifying! Maybe just the top leaves got nipped, cut them off and see what happens, it just might continue to grow on.

Sharon

That is horrible! I know it is getting cold here as well at night. Not that cold though. The last few nights I have been contemplating turning on the gas fireplace to warm up the livingroom. Hubby freaked when he heard that, instead he handed me another blanket and said "Here, much cheaper."

Syreeta

I agree with Sharon. Prune them back a bit. It will just help the fruit by not having as much foliage to feed, anyway. May even help to give them a bit of a shot of fertilizer, too. (It's not Aug. 1, yet)

Which reminds me - Aug. 1 is fast approaching and I have to complete any fertilizing for the year.

Yesterday, according to one of our resident TV weathergirls, was the average hottest day of the year - it's all downhill from here on. I think we made it to 23°, so it certainly wasn't near the hottest day of THIS year. Been getting a bit cool here, too, at night. But, I think our lowest, so far, has been 5°. Banff and Jasper were right around 0°, yesterday morning. This is a bit unseasonable. If you can't camp in the mountains in July and stay warm, when can you camp? Our daytime temps. seem to have been pleasantly temperate this summer, so far. None of that really hot stuff. Suits me fine but I know there are lots of people that love that heat.

Shauna

I wondered if someone wouldn't post this thread. On Canada AM this morning they showed Moosomin at 0º and hubby and I were hoping it was incorrect for the people living in that area. It went down to 6.9º here and we thought that was cold enough for this time of year.....pretty darn scary.

Betty

That's scary, since average wise July is the warmest month of the year. I mean, if you can't be safe from frost in July when can you be?

Hopefully this weather will straighten out. It's been coolish here as well. I appreciate not having to use the air conditioner, but 19C for a high is not my idea of beach weather.

Glen

Well, my turn tonite, I guess. Environment Canada says our low tonight will be 4C, with risk of frost. As my retired army DH would say, 'how do I get out of this chicken s*** outfit?'

The only thing I worry about is my 'crop' for drying - the decorative wheats which are all headed out and quite lovely although some are leaning/lodging over quite a bit. And the Broomcorn, just starting to put out seedheads. And the purple millet, not yet forming any spikes. The area is not frost prone, though, so here's me crossing my fingers.

Does this mean summer is over? Last week I was talking to a 90 year old farmer and he predicted frost in early July just like it happened in 1925 and lost all the crops. I told my wife that our old friend was going nuts and maybe we should talk to his kids. Well, I guess he was right LOL!
Andre

Well our low is supposed to be 7º, but we had some really good rain showers today, which we needed, (even the fellows like us trying to bale were glad to see some) and we aren't considered a low-lying area.....hopefully the same for you Pudge....this is nonsense....supposed to be hot again on the weekend.

Betty...saying a no-frost prayer for everyone! 0:)

Last summer we had frost in July and June and August. This summer hearing about frost in July is downright shocking considering how warm it has been. No Fair, I say!

Pudge, I hope you and everyone else escapes a frost as this cold front moves through.
Jan

No frost!!! The temp went down to only 5C.

We also got that rain yesterday, Betty. I was digging up and tossing some perennials on Tuesday and couldn't believe how dry the soil is, so that rain was definitely most welcome.

Yes, we got close to an inch of rain between Tues evening and yesterday....thank goodness, now I don't have to water at least for a week :>) LOL.... Our low was 8C. Glad to hear you had no frost Pudge. Hope no one else did either.

The 14 day trend shows warm temps for the next couple of weeks, I'm hoping they are right.

Betty

Glad you didn't get the frost Pudge. I moved my min/max thermometer to a shrub area and it showed a low of -0.6C last night. I didn't get much sleep last night, kept waking up every hour and checking temps, crazy, I know. We turned the sprinkler on the garden at 3:00 a.m. and I think that really helped as there was no damage at all on the pumpkins.

We missed the rain again, have not had much rain all of July, the poor Heliopsis helianthoides were so wilted, I had to water them yesterday.

Too close for comfort this a..m. at +2C. But...close only counts in horse shoes.
Jan

It's been 36F here in Northern MN the last couple of mornings too. Sheesh! Last week was in the 90's. Mother Nature DOES enjoy her little tricks doesn't she?

I think Mother Nature is on crack! LOL

+5C here this morning, but the temperatures are supposed to warm up by the weekend, thank goodness!

+6C here this morning. And hopefully it does warm up. It's way too early for this kind of stuff. It almost felt like late September this morning.

Tomorrow it's suppose to be near 30C.

Overall though, the summer has been much better than last year. It seems though, that the weather gets stuck in these 'ruts'. Two weeks of warm in June, then two weeks of cold. Two weeks of hot in July, then two weeks of cool, etc.

Glen

When we were coming back from the lake yesterday, dh remarked that it felt almost like September. Then he said, "And there goes a flock of geese!" My daughter and i both fell for it!