Lighting up the garden

Heather Ainsley ECB Publishing, Inc. While our calendars tell us that winter is just a few short days away, the hinting chill of winter has been threatening off and on for the past few weeks, and chances are, your garden is suffering a little bit for it. As winter steadily sinks in, there are ways to protect and strengthen your flower beds and veggie patches for the long, cold months ahead. There is something a little exhilarating about stepping outside on a brisk morning and seeing white. Of course, as Floridians, what we see covering the ground is probably not snow, but the presence of ice crystals called frost. Frost occurs when the temperatures outside reach freezing levels for just