First Frost: A chance to learn from the landscape

It's moving towards fall in a real way where we live. Having a first light frost has always been a wonderful opportunity to embrace the seasonal change and learn as much as possible from it. The areas that get deeply frosted, the areas that get no frost, the in-between zones... Why does one area get a thick frost and some other areas spared? Thermal mass from buildings, protection from wind, a canopy overhead to block the descending cold, deep mulches holding in the warmth of the soil below. So many subtle things happening in the landscape. Frost can be a great chance to have a visible snapshot of the dynamics of temperatures in your landscape...

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