Plant hardening - Is this wise?

[Dirty Digger]

I'm hardening my plants prior to planting out, so far they've been left for about 3 nights outside, however, we're due a frost tonight, so I was wondering if it's a wise thing to leave them out again covered in fleece or whether I should bring them in? I intend to plant them all out within the next week anyway and will be fleecing them until June or thereabouts.

What do you think?

An answer would be appreciated asap as I need to act quickly if the general consensus is that they're not safe.

I'm on the lower part of Lincoln.

[Dirty Digger]

[kazzab]

bring them in its not worth the risk

[Dirty Digger]

bring them in its not worth the risk

the majority are brassicas.......are they not hardy enough do you think?

[manicscousers]

our brasicas have been in the ground for a week, no protection apart from debris netting  :)

[Bugloss2009]

our brassicas are out in the garden waiting to be planted when i've got a mo

[chriscross1966]

Kind of ditto, the ones that aren't actually in the ground already are in 15-drop modules waiting for space.... It's a good p;ooint to raise though and one that caught me out a few times when I shifted to pretty much only module sowing, apart from potatoes and garlic/wacky alliums just about everything I sow starts in a module indoors. There's some things that just don't really need heat at all, cabbages and broad beans leap to mind. By all meanns start them indoors but as soon as they're up they really can be outside unless it gets biblical out there, too much heat and they'll get leggy....but if they've been raised indoors then the usual rule is bring em in at night if frost forecast....the only stuff I moverd last night was the dwarf frewnch beans in planters (to the polytunnel and they might stay there thinking about it, the idea is for them to crop quickly and I have the space) and some early spuds that are well up (and the pots are full) which I fleeced..... The ones that were only just showing got another inch or so of compost....

chrisc

[Dirty Digger]

our brassicas are out in the garden waiting to be planted when i've got a mo

I took the chance and left them out overnight....lucky really as i fell asleep. In the end, the temperature didn't drop all that low. It wasn't just brassicas, I have some tomato seedlings, some calendula, some datura and peas but all seems to be well bar one tomato plant but even that doesn't look fatal.