First frost

Last night our part of town got much colder than the rest of Anchorage... probably due to air drainage off the mountians, and the clear sky. It was 26 degrees when Donna woke up at 5 am. Fortunately we had covered the tomatoes and tender herbs before going to bed late.

Frost effects; notes for next year:
- winter and summer squash plants killed
- tomatillo partially rolled leaves
- the 1 exposed tomato plant has partially rolled leaves
- oregano and bouganvilla looked really bad (shiny and dark frozen plant look) in the morning, but were fine by afternoon
- potato plants all killed
- only 2 of the dozen tuberous begonias had some leaf droop
- the "Alaskan" variety of sunflower looks much worse than the accidental bird-seed sunflowers, which look fine

Everything else looks OK... we covered sage, thyme, rosemary and tomatoes. However, the uncovered thyme seemed to survive just fine.