Protect Your Plants during Spring Cold Snap

 

Cold Temperature at Night Only - 

Cover tender plants with light cotton sheets or with cardboard boxes. You can weight them down with rocks or limbs.    Do remember to remove them the next day when the temperature rises.  

Cold Temperatures during Day and Night -

Clear plastic is not recommended.  On a sunny day, even when it’s below freezing, the air under clear plastic can cook your plants. 

• Black plastic is preferred
• Use a stake to tent the plastic

If the cold only lasts an hour or so and if plants are protected from the wind by a wall or a line of shrubbery, they will probably survive just fine.