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Hi guys

This may be a silly question, but do the met office predict a last frost date for different areas of the country? Or is it generally at the same time each year?
I'm just trying to plan my hardening off and planting out!

Thanks

Mel

Hi Mel, I've seen a map somwhere that has the last frost date's on in a sort of band (like they do for temperature) but I'm damned if I know where it is. The trouble is with this is will be a generalisation & you may live in a frost pocket & get caught out.

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Hi cotton, you can,t really predict when the last frostwill occur in any given area. What i do is go into the weather site and then go to history and look back at previous years and you will get an general idea. Hope this is a little helpful.

I did the same as Bramble. I reserched the last 20 years for last frosts and first frosts.
Here in Cardiff last Spring frost is mid April and first Winter frost is late November.

Can I ask where you found the information? Just BBC weather or something?

I googled my nearest large town and the words "frost & record". That brought up various statistics and I then started to copy the information down on a note pad until I had all the results.

Hello Cotton, if you don't already know about it you can get good gardening weather forecasts at www.metcheck.com

Hi, I go into a site called weather underground. Type in your country, then your county and then the history for any given year. It will give you a good idea of what to expect. Hope this is helpful.

Great I will check those sites out, thanks.

Thanks for all the info guys - I'm on to it...