Kiwi is my bird-o
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Where I live it is typically warm for the season by now. For the past month, it has been in the high 60's during the day and 40's at night, so I went ahead and planted the plants I started indoors 2 weekends ago. Yesterday it SNOWED! I luckily was able to run home at lunch when it first started snowing and the temperatures were still in the 40's and cover all my plants with pots, towels and blankets in a hope of saving them. It dropped below freezing and started accumulating around 6pm, and we have a good half inch on the ground this morning. My tomatoes, corn, snap-peas, onions ad carrots are in beds right next to the house, so the roof prevented them from getting any snow on the blankets, and I peeked underneath this morning, and they seemed fine, no frost or anything, leaves looked ok. But my squashes, melons, herbs and lettuces were out in the open, and the blankets covering them have plenty of snow on them. I managed to cover all my squash and melon plants with empty plant pots, small towels over the pots and then threw a heavy blanket over the whole bed. My lettuces just got a heavy folded in half beach towel (they are in a half-barrel so a folded towel fit better and made a thicker cover) and my herbs only got 1 towel per plant. I'm afraid to remover their coverings since it is still in the low 30's right now to check on them. Do you think I put enough protection on them for them to make it? It it suppose to get in the high 50's today and lows in the high 30's tonight (so I will re-cover my plants tonight), but the forecast seems to be that the temperatures will stay warm in the 60's/40's from here on out (or at least the nest 10 days it can predict). Do you think I might of saved my plants that got snow on their coverings? Will the drastic temperature changes kill them? Help, I'm pretty worried since I've been working on these plants since February.