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We've been continuing to harvest our tomatoes in this warm fall, not really getting very many, but enough to keep watering the plants. But then, it got cold a couple of weeks ago, down to 31F. So we dragged a tarp vaguely over the top of the plant to protect it somewhat. The seemed to work, and then it was 75 which is insane, but whatever. We were actually surprised that more tomatoes didn't ripen during the warm spell. Predicted 29 tonight, and 31 last night, and unprotected 29 is much closer to "kill the plant" temperatures. So we got some translucent plastic that we have lying around, and did a better job of sealing against the ground so that it would be better protection. This afternoon I stuck my hand in through a small gap and indeed it was a fair bit warmer inside. (I did not go get the thermometer, bad scientist.) It's going to be 75 again later this week. I don't think we would have done this had that not been predicted.