Getting Back to the Garden Revisited

I'm following up on the post "Getting Back to the Garden" in which I describe the outcome of this year's crop.  There is now more news to report: the sweet potatoes have been harvested.

Some of the sweet potato leaves slipped out from under their plastic cover during the freeze this week and turned an unattractive shade of black.  That wasn't a big loss since it was harvest time.  I think we might have done better had I not been set back a month by a bad batch of slips, but I think the results were good enough that we should try again next year.  There were a lot of fingerling sweet potatoes, so I foresee some roasted sweet potatoes in my future.

I also thought I would share the interesting way in which we ended up protecting the tomatoes from our early freeze.  Salt had constructed our raised beds with posts on the corners, so we covered the sides with a plastic wrap that is used to protect floors and to package items for moving. It comes in large rolls and can be easily wrapped around just about any surface.  It took less than five minutes to cover the sides, then we threw a clear plastic tarp over the top and stapled it down.  The total time spent creating an instant cold frame was fifteen minutes. The tomatoes did great, and I think we'll leave it up for the remainder of the month as the weather is getting a bit cool for the tomatoes.