So here it is, the first hard freeze of the season. 10pm to 9am. That's too cold! And for too long! And, of course. Three days after the backyard tomato jungle proves viable, yet not quite ready for harvest. Two days after a pile of new eggplant flowers open - yes, the Ichibans, the Chinese, the little white ones- they were all in full crazy-warm Florida winter bloom. Who will survive? Who will die and agonizing, wilty, early-morning death???? I certainly don't know. I read somewhere that collards are frost hardy, so I suppose we'll see about that...I'm out of sheets for my haphazard garden!

Hell's bells, the anticipation is killing me! Wish me luck!