According to the Liverpool Echo, which is naturally Somerset’s favourite weather news source, if you live in Glasgow, you can expect the first frosts from the end of October, only two weeks away.
It’s not clear to anyone where that information came from, but it’s in a newspaper from Liverpool, which is good enough for us, lar.
First frosts that settle on your garden are quite microclimate specific. It’s not uncommon to see frost all over a shady garden low on a hill, while a sunny garden a few doors uphill is frost free (due to the residual heat of the day, and the fact that cold air flows downhill).
Where cold air collects, it makes a frost pocket that gets frostier than the surrounding area, and so these places are not ideal for most fruit trees because their flowers keep getting frozen off.
It’s good to know which two-week bracket your garden’s first frost typically falls in, so you can plan ahead to do all the things gardeners do to prepare for freezing weather. No need to list all that here, but I’ve already brought my lucky aloe plant inside ahead of time.
If you are a beginner with taking care of tender plants overwinter, the RHS has a guide that is absolutely worth us copying and passing off as our own, but it’s easier this way.
