It’s 12:30 pm and it’s 38.4 in the garden. No way is it going to get to 50 as weather people say, so I’m not taking veggie/fruit plants/dwarf fruit tree, covers off today. Now that I have figured out which containers to use to plant as many of the 80 onion bulbs as I can, I want to plant them and get it over with, but not today in high 30s/low 40s, weather.
Onions will overwinter just fine in your vicinity with no protection. But today isn’t a good planting day for root stuff so you’re good regardless :)
If you have to decide what to protect from a frost or freeze, unless it might get below 10F, your onions will be just fine.
In Vidalia GA they plant them out (seedlings) sometime in Sept/Oct and then harvest next May/June. They don’t grow as much during the cooler temps as they do when temps are above 45F or 50F but they’re totally hardy to frost/freezing temps there.
I hear ya. I moved a big garbage baggie of frozen leaves today using only rubberized-palm gloves, and I thought my fingers were going to fall off!