Early blossom in Netherlands gets hit by night frost

"To what extent it will also cause a bad harvest is too early to say, but there are many plum growers with considerable damage," says Frederik Bunt from Slijk-Ewijk. On his own farm, the Reine Victoria variety in particular suffered from night frost. “That is a variety that sets easily, so even with 50% frozen flowers, the rest of the blossom can still provide a lot of fruit. Only now the bees don't fly for a while with the cold wet weather." Bunt hears from colleagues throughout the Netherlands that Reine Victoria turned out to be susceptible to the cold, also in Zeeland and North Holland. It was well below zero on the clear night from Saturday to Sunday. “We had the soil irrigation on from 11 o'clock in the evening until sunrise. However, the minimum temperature of -5°C, which Bunt read on the thermometer, only lasted a short time in the eastern Betuwe, because just when clouds started to arrive. Read more below the photo Early cherries hit Irrigation of the blossoms is also not ...