The wind may be a factor here - keeping things from being injured by the cold temps. I'm still picking in zone 10 and things are looking great - especially my lettuce, garlic, onion, broccoli. However, notice the crops with Remay over their cages - are doing better than crops out in the open.

It is a gamble with the cloth covers here - mainly because we can have yo-yo weather at this time of year - and it also could be an oven under the cloth as well. But so far, they have been fine - and no sign of white butterfly damage.

Sounds normal to me - count our blessings eh?

Bejay

Sounds like you, like me, are blessed with a very nice micro-climate zone. They exist all over and are often equal to a whole zone difference. Lucky you.

Dave

ancfan, I am in a much different zone than you and have experienced the same thing. Even though we had our first hard frost (freeze) before Thanksgiving, we picked tomatoes recently. It struck me as very odd.

Thanks everyone..And yes I feel very blessed, fresh tomatoes in Dec Who would have known, we stopped watered them 2 mos ago and I just went out to the garden this weekend (it's usually dark by the time I get off of work during the week) and discovered all of them. glo :)

I'm also in zone 9, Texas, and planted tomatoes late because it was so hot, and now it's close to freezing! I didn't get one ripe tomato this year. I've harvested all of the green ones and will be eating fried green tomatoes this week.

Yeah, me too! My spring tomatoes burned up (despite shading) before I got many and now I have lots out there, plus zucchini & limas. Got these all covered in hopes of saving them (25 degrees right now). Cole crops should be fine, but I covered the lettuce.

I don't recall my tomatoes ever doing that, but I will be looking for that spot here!

I have two growing boxes that have lettuce, carrot, broccoli, spinach, etc., one is covered with remay, the other is not. With the past weeks - down to 40's temps, they both show no signs of frost damage, but the one with the Remay cover has crops that are 3 times as big as the other.

The nice salads are truly appreciated - (made some blue cheese dressing just for the occasion).

We are blessed.

Bejay

I have had maters into late December in the past, but this year we have had several freezes already, starting in Nov. Early for us.
I have the pared down garden going for the winter. lettuces, arugula, beets, chard, leeks, celery, broccoli and my wonderful herbs!
Time to concentrate on turning compost, collecting manure and cleaning things up in general.
It is nice to kind of forget about things out there in the nasty weather, then go out and pick a bunch of lettuce or chard for dinner. I DON'T like realizing it's already dark and have to grab the flashlight to pick some herbs/lettuce/chard for dinner!