Woke up to frost this morning. I've been doing okay so far this year, I've only lost three buds off of one particular plant, and I'm not sure if that's due to the frost or due to a particularly hard downpour we got recently. But tonight looks clear, too, which as often as not means more frost, at least in this neck of the woods. So I busted out my trusty Trader Joe's bags and red Swingline stapler, and went out to cover the plants.
Whereupon I knocked an entire spike off of one of them.
It's living in a shotglass, because I couldn't bear to throw it away. Sigh. Pretty, though, isn't it?