Celtic Reconstructionist Pagans tend to celebrate Samhain on the date of first frost, or when the last of the harvest is in and the ground is dry enough to have a bonfire.

* 1813 – 1814, severe cold, last freeze-over of Thames, and last frost fair.

Adults start appearing in gardens after the last frost and are a problem through the remainder of the growing season.

The average first frost occurs in mid-October with the average last frost occurring in late April.

The last frost date of the season is around May 11, though most gardeners plant on the May 24th long weekend to be safe.

The leaves are often among the last to open in spring, and the first to fall in autumn if an early frost strikes ; they have no marked autumn colour, often falling dull green.

The mistral can also have beneficial effects — the moving air can save crops from the spring frost, which can last until the end of April.

Seeds are started after all danger of frost is past and the soil is warm or within 3 – 4 weeks before the predicted last frost date in the area.

In the United States and Canada, the growing season usually means the days between last and first frost, or approximately the last and first occurrence of 0 ° C ( freezing ) overnight low temperature.

Records from the later Qin dynasty say that during the last year of Jie's reign, ice formed during the summer mornings and frost occurred through July.

The plant may be propagated either by seed after the last frost, or by division after flowering.

Propagation roots with growing points can be planted in a well-dug bed in early spring, near the time of the last expected frost.

Seed can be sown in late March in a greenhouse or directly into the border after the last frost.

If it is planted from seed after the last frost, it will flower in the second year.

If it is planted in flats before the last frost and then transplanted it may flower in the first year.

It is recommended to start red cabbage seeds indoors 4 weeks before the last frost.

Red cabbage prefers climates that remain moist and cool for most of its vegetative growth stage, so they can be placed in the ground shortly after the last frost, while the spring is still cool.

Between 1890 and 2004 there were 41 occurrences of frost in Campinas.

In areas prone to frost it is usually shorter, and grown as if it were an annual.

In May 1816, frost killed off most of the crops that had been planted, and on 4 June 1816, frosts were reported in Connecticut, and by the following day, most of New England was gripped by the cold front.

They were overjoyed when the plantings were completed, but it was not long before frost occurred, one after another, necessitating severe pruning, which only weakened the damaged trees.

It used to sometimes be popular to frost these with psilocybin mushroom frosting, but this practice has since been discontinued when psilocybin mushrooms were banned in 2008.

According to Du Chaillu, "... during the great famine of 1867 ; a year memorable in the annals of Northern Europe, when, in consequence of an early and heavy frost in summer, the crops were destroyed, and desolation and death spread over vast districts.

Clifton Ward suggested that weathering with earthquakes as a secondary agent could be responsible, while J E Marr and R A Daly believed that earthquakes were unnecessary and suggested that frost action with other unspecified agents was more likely.

Pliny the Elder ( AD 23-79 ) wrote that certain grape varieties were not harvested before the first frost had occurred.

The poet Martial recommended that grapes should be left on the vine until November or until they were stiff with frost.

It cannot be completely ruled out that the descriptions refer to dried grape wines, a common style of wine in Roman times, where the raisin-like grapes were harvested late enough for the first frost to have fallen.

The particular clones planted in Australia were of poor quality and highly susceptible to coulure, frost and downy mildew.

A reference to " the coal of fire upon ice " ( 1. 1. 170 ) is a possible allusion to the winter of 1607-08, when the frost was so severe that vendors set up booths on the frozen Thames river and pans of coals were placed on the ice so that pedestrians could warm themselves.

Afterwards, between 45-48, internment camps were set which led directly to the death of 70. 000 more, of famine, frost, plagues, tortures and executions.

The climate was moist and mild enough to support crocodiles, which do not tolerate frost, and the lakes were surrounded by sycamore forests.

The frost warnings moved to 7 pm until the late 1970s when they were removed from the schedule.

Work only stopped in time of drought, extreme frost or problems with the silk supply, although unofficial holidays were taken during elections and Derby races in August 1748.

Gilbert White in The Natural History of Selborne ( 1789 ), in a note appended to his Letter VI, to Thomas Pennant, apropos of local people's success in searching for bog oak for house construction, by discovering these trees " by the hoar frost, which lay longer over the space where they were concealed, than on the surrounding morass.

This increased erosion at higher elevations with the introduction of alpine glaciers while mid-elevations were attacked by frost wedging and lower areas by more vigorous stream scouring.

The 1957 vintage was hit particularly hard by frost damage: the regional authorities reported that only 11 cases ( 132 bottles ) of wine were produced.

*「 十年生死兩茫茫 。 不思量 ， 自難忘 。 千里孤墳 ， 無處話淒涼 。 縱使相逢應不識 ， 塵滿面 、 鬢如霜 。 夜來幽夢忽還鄉 。 小軒窗 ， 正梳妝 。 相顧無言 ， 惟有淚千行 。 料得年年腸斷處 ： 明月夜 ， 短松岡 。」“ For ten years here I wander and there you lie ./ I don't think about you often ,/ yet how can I forget you !/ With your grave a thousand miles away ,/ where can I confide my loneliness ?/ Even if we met, could you recognize me ,/ with dust all over my face / and hair like frost ?/ Last night I had a dream in which I returned home ./ By the window ,/ you were combing your hair ./ We Looked at each other silently ,/ with tears streaming down our cheeks ./ There's a place which every year will be my misery ：/ the moonlit night ,/ the hill of short pines.

Clifton Ward suggested that weathering with earthquakes as a secondary agent could be responsible, while J. E. Marr and R. A. Daly believed that earthquakes were unnecessary and suggested that frost action with other unspecified agents was more likely.

Carn Menyn bluestones These dolerite slabs, split by frost action, seem to be stacked ready for the taking and many have been removed over the centuries for use locally but it remains a moot point whether the Stonehenge bluestones were conveyed thence by human or glacial means.

Wall heaters were turned on only after all the frost had evaporated, in order to prevent water from entering equipment.

I like hay for this and apply it so that only the tops of the plants show right after a good frost.

After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home, it being still a great frost.

:...‘ about six o ’ clock, that morning, I observed the air very much condensed in my chamber-window ; and, upon getting up, was informed by a tenant that finding himself cold in bed, about three o ’ clock in the morning, he looked out at his window, and to his great surprise saw the ground covered with a white frost: and I was assured that two men at Barton, about off, saw in some shallow tubs, ice of the thickness of a crown-piece .’

Some of the places through which I passed, were nearly impassable ; and, to increase my annoyance, I was obliged to return, partly on foot, partly on horseback, through this bleak and marshy tract, in darkness and intense frost.