A late-November garden can make a weather report feel personal. The forecast says the low was 36 degrees Fahrenheit. The porch thermometer agrees. Nothing, according to the numbers, should have frozen. Then you step outside and the lawn is silvered, the fallen oak leaves are rimmed white, and the low parsley at the edge of the path looks as if…
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Kale looks almost theatrical after the first real frost. The leaves are darker than they were in September, their ruffled edges traced with white, their surfaces stiffened just enough to catch the low morning light. A gardener who does not know the plant might think the crop has been damaged. A gardener who has eaten from the bed before and…

