Well, sorry. I have lived in Connecticut for over 12 years. I have many friend over there who do gardening. The expected spring frost date is mother's day for southern CT. It is usually better by the sound. But inland can get worse. So this should be no surprise. Here in GA, North Atlanta area we are expecting 41F tonight. Not quite near frost but very unseasonable. I have a suggestion for you to protect your plants: 1- If you have lots of leaves, pack around and over your plants and cover them with tarp or blankets etc. 2- In liue of leaves, get a lot of newspapers, separate them sheet by sheet and crumble them into fluffy balls and use them to pack around your plants,so that the air will be trapped and the weight of tarp will not damage the plants. Frost is not so bad. All you have to do is prevent cooling by radiation. But if you have freez, cold air will penetrate even through tarp and blanket. If you have just a few plants, you may cover them with empty pots. I would put a layer of newspaper inside them, for more protection.

Last year was definitely colder here in the South. It's not an exact science by any means . These 'oscillations' impact weather all around the Earth and we are so fortunate to live in a country better prepared to deal with weather shifts than third world countries. Generally though, during an el Nino period, our southeast location in the USA means wetter/colder winters.

Like Evan will be moving alot of tomatos inside a unheated garage tonight. Thinking like over 200 pots of them. Sheeze thougth we abuout safe by now. Have a few tomatoes in the ground so will put some blankets over the covers. The frost on 4/16/17 really took out alot of my seedlings. So all the tender stuff gets moved tonight. Guess every one wishes they had lots of Remay to cover with.

Jay, Our odd weather irritates me! It isn't fair that with an average last frost date for my county of March 27th, there I sat with frost on the morning of April 28th, is it? Our forecast for Sunday night is for 44, and I bet I have frost early Monday morning too unless that forecast changes. I'll be ready this time and will either cover up tender vegetation or have the sprinkler in place and ready to turn on briefly in the early morning hours to wash the frost off the plants. You know, I wouldn't mind the odd weather so much if we were 5 or 10 degrees cooler than the surrounding area in summer, but sadly that doesn't happen. Our first August here, we had a heat wave where the highs varied from 108 to 111 (113 in nearby Ardmore) for about a week....and Tim's relatives from Pennsylvania were in town visiting and they were just dying in the heat. In Fort Worth, we rarely got above 105, so 108 to 111 was a huge shock. Then, we had an "early" hard killing freeze before the end of September. Yet, some years we don't have a killing frost until mid-December. If any of you can figure out my weather and explain it to me, please do so! Y'all are burdened with the wild wind lately, aren't you? Does the wind ever stop blowing there? Gordon Graham, who you might remember as the grower of the world's largest tomato on record, used to stack two Wall-O-Waters on top of each other to protect tall plants. If I remember correctly, he put wooden surveyor's stakes inside the first WOW, hammered into the ground, for support. After the first WOW was filled, he'd place the second one on top and then fill it. Although it didn't say (that I can recall) in his little "how to grow large tomatoes" booklet, I always assumed he used 3' tall stakes so that they would give partial support to the second WOW and keep it from collapsing inward on top of the plant. If you have Marvin Meisner's "Giant Tomatoes" book, which is the best book I've read on growing tomatoes in general whether you want to grow large tomatoes or normal ones, there is a reprint of Gordon Graham's little booklet near the end of the book. My potato plants that got bit back a couple of weeks ago have finally shown some good regrowth. I was starting to wonder if they would. Chalk it up to the weather that see-saws wildly from one extreme to another. I'd be confused if I were a plant too. I'm excited that you'll be getting your plants in the ground soon. It never feels like spring is really here until you're out slaving away in the garden planting your tomatoes. That's when I feel winter truly has ended. I hope this week's cold spell is the last. However, since we had June type temperatures earlier in April, who knows what the weather will do next? We've never had frost or freeze damage here after May 3rd or 4th, so I'm eager for those days to get here so I can stop worrying about it. Dawn