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We seem to be getting an unusually early frost this year.
It will go down to about 30 on Tuesday night so here is my plan since I think it is a bit early to dig up everything. Let me know if you think this is feasible or if I am wrong, please!

I am digging up just a few plants, p-stem and all. Most others I cut off all leaves except the top ones today. Tomorrow I plan to roll them all in frost cloth up to the where the leaves come up. Since it is a few hours during the night it ail freeze my hope is that just a few leaves will be damaged and the rest will be ok so they can grow outside for another two weeks, hopefully, before I dig them up and put them in the garage for the winter. A few that are too big I will make a permanent winter cover of several layers of frost cloth since that has worked in the past unless I can find some heat tape. But not until I see that we have more serious freezes in the forecast.

Will a few hours of around 30F hurt them if I have them covered in frost cloth? Also the few that still have fruit but hasn't plumped yet I ail also cover (including fruit) in a bag of frost cloth.

Is this a good idea or should I just have dug them all up for winter and be done with it? Just thought it was a wee bit early to put them in the garage and it would mean more than 4 months of hibernation and risk of rotting so hence I thought I would try to cover them for this first frost and minimize the hibernation phase in my garage.

What do you guys think?