Do tomatillos need to be picked before it freezes?

It's going to freeze tonight. I'm out frantically picking what I have to. I know tomatillos die off in the winter, do I need to pick them clean or will they keep trying to ripen things for a bit longer?  2 nights, back to back, probably 28 degrees.
Thanks! I'll check this in a bit, see if I need to do them or not. Never dealt with this kind of sudden freeze before.
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I feel your scruples! Frantically stripped the garden Monday night in anticipation of a freeze... and it only got to around 30 for a short time. Everything survived (some burn on the basil) and I have some regret that I didn't leave the passion fruits to ripen more on the vine.
I think your tomatillos will be fine, especially since they're self-wrapped. And if you're in SW Missouri, you're theoretically warmer than me in NW and we are barely going to touch 32 degrees with no further freeze until the end of next week. My tomatillo plants are fine so far.

The town gets the wind off the north plains, and I am in an exposed area here, always goes 2-4 degrees lower than what they predict for the town. They are calling 30, for at least 6 hours each night. It'll warm back up after that, not sure for how long though.

I'm out clearing tomatoes, will get some greens I don't expect to make it, got the unripe volunteer cantaloupes, and some beans that are in a bad place and I'll forget them. Most of the beans I'm leaving, I'm seeding them at this point, so I'm not worried, although I'll grab a bunch of their leaves for greens. Will pull the sweet potato greens, but not digging today.

I'll do my seeding in a few days when I have time. Got a pretty large amount of zinnias I want to seed, as well as the beans.

And don't have time for dealing with any of this for several days.

I made it out to the post-freeze garden yesterday. All the tomato plants were mush, as were the couple remaining green tomatoes on the vine. The tomatillo plants  were also clearly dead. But to my surprise, the couple mature tomatillos remaining on those vines were ok! They hadn’t gone to mush like the tomatoes even though they sit lower on the ground and would have theoretically got hit harder by frost.

I ended up picking off the biggest ones, and covering the plant at night. Only one plant, so I can cover it easy. So far still alive.

I moved here from NM, they were weeds there, I had them all over. I miss them. And having gotten zero off it when there are all those green ones finally... I want my tomatillos!!

The tomatoes are dead. Glad they got picked clean.