According to local weather reports, we will be getting our first hard frost tonight. My spinach & broccoli will be okay, but I'm going to cover my red lettuce plants with plastic pots & my row of buttercrunch lettuce with a plastic tarp. I already have an arched metal frame over the rows so all I have to do is lay the tarp on top.
Frost cloth is best, but if you are like me why spend the money when you can use a variety of household items for covers. Cut the bottom off of milk jugs or 2 liter soda bottles. You can also use newspaper, large trash bags, old sheets or blankets. When the temperature warms enoughduring the day you have to take these off or you will heat the ground too much and throw your plants into active growing which could damage them later on. For your milk jugs and soda bottles just take the caps off during the day and pop them back on at night.
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