It has frozen completely several times here now. The garden is mostly empty and planted with a cover crop of legumes for green manure in the spring. Only the blackened, drooping tomato vines have not been pulled and the few winter crops.
We harvested the last mature cauliflower (see photo), as they do not do well in the rain. There are still abundant broccoli, swiss chard, kale, parsley and overwintering carrots.
We find we cannot grow lettuce until early spring, even in a greenhouse. I make sprouts in mid-winter for sandwich greens.
But we did just pick peppers, both hot and sweet, from the upper greenhouse. The lower greenhouse, with more sensitive squash, melons, and cucumbers died a month ago. The cellar is full of peppers (they keep a long time in baskets), apples and, soon, potatoes from Ferndale.
The pantry is stocked with canned and dried goods, the freezer with meat and berries and pesto. There is still a lug of tomatoes, picked green, ripening.
We are very fortunate here in our benevolent temperate climate.
