Understanding Your First Frost Date

Your first frost date and last frost date define the length of your gardening season. Understanding your first frost date is important in planning the end of your summer garden and the beginning of your fall garden. Gardener Scott explains what the first frost date is, how it affects your garden, and how to determine your first frost date. (Video #191)
Find your first frost date for US and Canada at National Gardening Association site:
garden.org/apps/frost-dates/
Frost dates in the UK:
www.plantmaps.com/interactive...
Frost dates in Australia:
www.oocities.org/mastergardene...
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[@umont503]

Nothing but the Best, Nothing but the Best!!!! Gardener Scott weeds through everything to give you the essentials. His KZbin channel is like a rose garden. Keep serenading us with your knowledge 🎶 🌹

[@essentialcomforts2166]

Looks like I've got about 50 days til my possible first frost. Guess I'd best focus on something that likes the cold. Time flies here in Colorado!

[@brusselsprout5851]

Only 87 views with such an informative video? Wow this is a video for every home farmer.

[@GardenerScott]

Thanks. It just came out and you were one of the first viewers. I appreciate your support.

[@MarineThePlantMachine]

VERY useful information! Definitely needed for my huge plant collection in England, we get frost a few times a year...

[@SuperMichelleDJ]

I don't have a hard freeze date where I live. This basically means we can plant things all year-round but vegetables are usually going to struggle a bit more in the winter time and grow much better in the spring and summer time.

[@ssfoste]

Never mind I went back and watched your previous videos. thanks

[@JoeBlack14]

In San Diego our last frost date can sometimes be the first frost date. Some years we have zero frost dates. I just plant everything I want and if it dies, it dies :) I have a cherry tomato that has lived for 3 years. For me I pay the most attention to how many light hours I have and where the sun is pathing.

[@SuperMichelleDJ]

I do the same thing here in Australia where I live. Some winters are more freezing then others. Likewise some summer seasons are hotter than other seasons. I just expect that tomatoes, passionfruit etc, aren't going to grow as well in the winter as they would in summer. There is a whole lot of different climates depending on where you live in Australia.

[@garyradford9381]

@ Gardner Scott thanks much for that info. Gary AZ

[@lauralaspe329]

Thank you for the info. This is the first year I’ve been very concerned with the first frost date. I’ve mostly just let stuff die when it was time and bring in pots when necessary. The beginning was a little slow, I thought this info wouldn’t be stuff I didn’t know but you really build on the info, like a good teacher should!

[@mammacass5311]

Thank you so much for this information as usual I learned something new. I had heard about the first and last frost date and tried to follow it but had never heard of the first freeze and the hard freeze !! thanks again

[@Veronica-nq9kr]

Thanks for making this so easy to understand. I started trying to determine the dates for my area, but the percentages threw me. Now I get it!

[@amandavhb1630]

Great content and link! It is going to make planning planting so much easier!

[@deannaschroeder2348]

Thank you for letting me know about GreenStock sale. I have been wanting one, did not want to pay the price. Just delivered and I am going to plant strawberries in the spring.

[@OakKnobFarm]

I'm dancing with my first frost date this year with some "hopeful" plantings that land right on the cusp!!! but: it's better to be optimistic than to have an open patch of unused soil!!!

[@sarahkirbach5040]

Thanks for the great info 👍🏻 I planted a large amount of sweet corn, butternut squash, summer squash, cukes, more herbs. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens - I’d love to get a good harvest of corn in October and more squash and cucumbers next month. I think a lot of the fun in gardening is looking forward to the next thing I’m planting...and of course the harvest, I love that!

[@michaelmarchione3408]

Thanks for the web pages.

[@stephenhope7319]

Great info. I have my spinach and carrots and radish and Habanero peppers out for fall harvest. Most will last thru winter here in Sacramento, no real hard frosts.

[@lilmak889]

As usual - great content!!!! Thank you so much :-)

[@rai55]

First/ last frost date, freeze date, hard freeze 😮🤯 THANK YOU for expanding my concept of growing season bookends! This info, and the link you provided, are all very helpful. Thank you always PROFESSOR Scott 🙏🏾🌱💫

[@LucretiaVanPelt]

In the Northeast, 1st thick fog in August defines approximately 2 months until the 1st killing frost. Wife's tale, but for most years it's been almost spot on.

[@GardenerScott]

We have a similar clue when snow first shows in the mountains.

[@rai55]

Aha - this is a wonderful guide, THANK YOU! I will be anticipating that first thick fog (zone 7b) to test out the theory ☁️☁️🧐

[@LucretiaVanPelt]

@@rai55thank you! I'm in zone 5. I wonder if there would be any kind of difference, as Gardner Scott mentioned. Also, I've seen it where the fog was in late July, and also early September. And, both cases still followed the two month rule. Have fun! :-)

[@lindadavidson2237]

Thanks for the link to the frost dates!

[@GardenerScott]

You're very welcome, Linda.

[@tranthiduyen615]

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[@ssfoste]

Great information, how about soil temp for planting those late season crops, what will germinate at high temps if you need 60 days vs a 30 day crop such as radishes.

[@emilmcculloch2941]

Hi Scott. Thank you for this video. It is VERY helpful as I am a new COVID gardener and obsessed with my new passion. In this video at the 10:10 minute mark, you are sitting on your raised bed with hoops with a white net over the hoops. I have been looking for a net like that. Can you tell me where to find one?

[@pdquilt]

Please add captions so I can watch your videos without interrupting others.

[@heidiclark6612]

Thank You for giving a clear explanation on frost dates. I never really paid much attention to the frost date at the end of summer because I never planted a fall crop. Now I am considering planting for fall so this is very good information.

[@khkheikki]

Is there a video on building those corrugated metal raised beds?

[@GardenerScott]

Not yet, but it is planned when I finish that project.

[@garyradford9381]

@ Gardner Scott , a question about your cattle panel when you planting tomatoes how close can you plant them do the same rules apply for pole beans ETC . Thanks Gary , your garden is nice and green. On your last vidio

[@GardenerScott]

Thanks, Gary. I plant my tomatoes about 18 inches apart under the trellis. I plant everything closer, with beans about four inches apart.

[@implodingsoftly]

I was just figuring this out yesterday for myself! Thanks for making it even easier to understand.

[@ohske]

👍👍👍👌♥️

[@jenpaige3110]

Does growing in a raised bed lower the soil temperature and make it easier for your crops roots to be affected by freezing temperatures? As opposed to growing in-ground?

[@GardenerScott]

It does lower the temperature sooner in winter, but it also warms up faster in spring.

[@brusselsprout5851]

Sunflower is photo bombing. : ) That link is good. Thank you. Okay, now I realize how to use the hoops I made. I tried using them over winter last year, but that wasn't good.

[@Kathleen253]

Lol

[@jakepatterson1666]

I'm having a huge fungus outbreak on my cucurbits.... My cucumbers are being destroyed, cantaloupes ravaged. My winter squash and honey dew are also showing signs. I've tried pruning, garden sulphur, safer's 3 in 1 spray. Still the infection spreads. Any advice?

[@GardenerScott]

If nothing else has worked, you might consider removing the infected plants to try to keep it from spreading further.

[@kimiyemlsmallgardendream8115]

So I’m really confused! 276 growing days, when do I plant direct sow winter crops etc. last is Feb 22 first is Nov 26 is first frost so hard to figure out when all the videos I follow are not in California never gets a real freeze where I live. Monterey country 🤷‍♀️lowest we see is maybe 28 Degrees (32 normal) highest 80. HELP

[@GardenerScott]

A winter garden is different than a fall garden that ends with a killing, hard freeze. You have great flexibility to grow hardy vegetables all through the winter.

[@laurabehenna9602]

Brilliant as usual! Really cleared up my puzzlement over how to interpret and use the 10%, 50%, 90% first frost date predictions.

[@fatguy9]

So if theres no frost dates where you live can you grow all year round? Will it just be a slower grow during the “colder” months?

[@GardenerScott]

Yes, you might be able to grow year-round if you choose appropriate plants. Growth will slow when there is less sun.

[@fatguy9]

Gardener Scott for sure, I plan on starting my garden in 2021 and I cant wait!! Being as self sufficient as I can is the best feeling, Thanks for the videos too

[@Neldidellavittoria]

The problem with you guys in the Northern Hemisphere is you've got the seasons in the wrong order. Here in the South my first frost is in June/July (10/90%) and my last frost is in August/September (90/10%). LOL. Seriously now, great video, as always!

[@kevinnistor1954]

sorry for being a child but all i could hear this whole video was "last prostate""