The weather is brisk and rejuvinating, but the winter darkness is creeping in. With the recent frost, a certain subset of the garden flora is gradually fading. The collards, kale, broccoli, cabbage and all the lettuces managed to survive beautifully. The first night was a lighter frost, followed by a pretty solid, hard freeze. I had forgotten to put the glass on the coldframe, and fortunately had the first night as a warning of what followed. But yesterday, in the howling winds, the top of one coldframe was lifted and carried 20 feet to smash in the blueberry hedge. Oops.
We were relatively ready for the frost, but did have to pull the beets in order to save the greens and we lost a few shelling beans. Otherwise, all the summer crops had been harvested.
The strawberries will be mulched soon, to protect the crowns from freezing and thawing. They'll be ready to put out the flower hands come spring, and I'm already dreaming of the sweet juicy fruit.
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