Do you have any old coffee cans or something similar? If you take out both the top and bottom, you can push it into the soil and it will protect tender plants from the wind. Old plastic pails that are cracked are good for this purpose also.
...another great idea...this wind has been blowing for about two months; it seems. When we planted our lettuce and spinach; the wind blew away the soil and scattered the seed around. We have some awesome lettuce and spinach going on, but the strangest rows you will ever see. Spinach plant in the peas; red lettuce in with spinach, etc...I put some three-gallon buckets over the smaller squash and pumpkin plants, but the wind came up ‘out of the blue’ late this morning, and before I could get the buckets, SNAP! It’s a good thing I had the larger tomato plants staked...ye gads. We’ve never seen wind this persistent...we actually had another confirmed tornado in northern NH on Saturday. That’s two in two years; including one that killed a local woman last year. That is very unusual for this area...