The predicted last frost date in my corner of the world is May 10th.
I’ve already planted cilantro, beets, spinach and peas outside in the garden. These veggies ARE frost tolerant. They love the cooler weather. But I still prefer to protect them a bit from predicted frosts.
To do that, we cover them. When I was a kid, on our for-personal-use farm, what folks would call a homestead in 2025, we would toss a bed sheet over the plants to protect them.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I don’t have that large of a vegetable garden. We use buckets and other containers to cover our plants overnight during frosts.
Our favorite frost coverings are empty washed and dried KFC (chicken) buckets. It gives us one more use for them.
During frosts, our backyard is a bright advertisement for fried chicken.
(grins)
