How to keep my garden from freezing? Let me count the ways!

How to keep my garden from freezing.......let me count the ways!  The broccoli rabe received a painting drop cloth-one of the flimsy plastic numbers which tried to fly away in the wind. So then we added a dark green shade cloth on top to weigh it down.  All along the sides we weighted it with sand from the walkways and a few garden implements and assorted tools. I put a hammer across one corner of the raised bed. The little four by four carrot bed got a layer of bubble wrap, but since it was barely wide enough to cover it we came back today and added our dog's blanket we used on the back seat of our truck. Then we put bricks at all four corners. The lettuce bed got a queen sized sheet with shovels anchoring it. The sugar snaps got a healthy layer of shredded documents and a Visqueen cover weighted by sand all along the length of it. The fig tree has started to bud so we covered it with a tarp and bubble wrap held in place by forty pound bags of compost. My husband has babied this little tree for a year and we had no figs last years due to drouth. We are hoping for a crop this year.

Scheffleras on the patio are wrapped in king size sheets. Tender plants in the front yard beds are covered by bubble wrap and cardboard boxes. Tender new seedlings have been brought inside and my succulents are in the mini greenhouse. Poinsettias planted against the back wall of the house are tarped over. We have two mornings to worry about. We are keeping our fingers crossed all this works. We started early in our preparations knowing some efforts would fall short. As of this afternoon everything was staying in place and hopefully will remain there until this momentary frigid spells passes. Fast assembly  cover are in our future, but for now this hodge podge of is the plan. It looks pretty sad, but if it gets us through the next cool mornings we may have seen the last of winter. That would be a good thing.