I am so glad it worked out for you! You have raised a responsible boy there. I hope you can think of a special reward for his excellent covering work! Disheartening, how that dang weather can change despite favorable forecasts.
I had this problem every first week of June, when we used to book a northern Ontario fishing trip on my husband's birthday week. Scramble to get the garden planted, and then worry about it freezing while we were gone. Sometimes threats of frost the night before we had to leave! Kept a line up of big buckets and pots at the ready next to the plants. I don't think I ever lost anything, but maybe some cucumber damage happened. It's hard growing in a shorter season area where you need to get stuff in the ground, every lost week matters.
