Carolina Gardening: Damage Assessment and What Worked .. What Didn't, 1 by dcparris

dcparris wrote:
I just caught this thread (been a while since I've been on DG). I put out about 11 of my tomato seedlings early this year - like late March. When the cold snap hit, I still had plenty of landscaping cloth from my expansion this year. I laid out 4 round tomato cages so the wire didn't hit the tomatoes, and draped 2 stretches of landscaping cloth over the top. I ran old coathanger wire through the cloth and cage wire to clasp the two sheets together, and to the cages. We did not get frost here in Charlotte - at least not at my house.

I have lost one, and a second looks to be on its way out as well. But all the others have survived. They are leafier than the ones I kept inside at night, probably because they got more sunlight by day. I just finished putting the rest of my seedlings in the ground yesterday. Here's a nice shot showing off my protection effort: