California Gardening: Freeze warning issued for Bay area. 12/18/2006, 1 by cnswift

cnswift wrote:
So I see that I'm not the only one in a panic over the weather. I wish I had the foresight to have started reading 'before' the killer frost hit, so that I could have covered things. My garden is in complete ruin. This is my third winter, so it was quite a surprise to see any damage. But then again, I've never seen it dip below 30 or even below 35 in the 22 years I've lived here! So the question I have, is what to do in the aftermath? Once it's brown I'm assuming it's dead? Should I cut it back? Or is it best to leave it as-is to protect anything that didn't die?