Hubby covered ours with straw right after planting. So far so good. Course we will be picking all the blooms off of the new ones anyway.
I have so many plants I can't tell which are the new plants. Had I known a week plus ago I would be getting snow I would have waited to weed out the nearly foot tall wheat plants that came up from last year's mulching. It certainly would have served well for insulation. I had just finished weeding out the other purple flowering weeds and dandelions along with the wheat that had taken over the strawberry plants from last fall. Nice clean pretty strawberry beds nearly full in bloom... Oh well, we shall see if my labor was in vain in the next few days.