When frost is forecast, whether in spring or fall, some vegetables and flowers are more or less likely to be damaged. Here is a list of plants and their tolerance of light frost:

Vegetables

Hardy Slightly Tolerant Tender Asparagus Beet Snap Bean Collards Broccoli Sweet Corn Endive Brussels Sprouts Tomato Kale Cabbage Lima Bean Kohlrabi Carrot Muskmelon Lettuce Cauliflower Cucumber Mustard Celeriac Eggplant Pea Celery Okra Potato Chard Pumpkin Rhubarb Onion Squash Rutabaga Parsnip Watermelon Salsify Radish Pepper Spinach Sweet Potato Turnip

Flowers

Hardy Slightly Tolerant Tender Corn Flower Black-eyed Susan Aster Ornamemtal Cabbage Calendula Nicotiana Pansy Coreopsis Petunia Primrose Dianthus Scabiosa Violet Snapdragon Statice
Sweet Pea Sweet Allysum
Torenia Verbena

Ageratum

Begonia

Celosia

Cosmos

Impatiens
Lobelia
Marigold
Portulaca
Phlox
Salvia
Vinca
Zinnia