Temperatures are supposed to go down into the teens starting tomorrow, so I figured I had gone as far as possible with the garden this year. But... I had several nice looking lettuce plants still out there - lovely rosettes about 5" across, and I figured I might as well try an experiment. Some I covered over with the ferny asparagus stalks that I cut back in the fall. Kind of an overcoat for the lettuce, let's see how it goes. And two others I covered with a clear plastic lid (from a cake), and put a rubbermaid 18-gallon tote over the top of that, and weighted it down with a rock so the wind won't blow it away. We'll see what happens under those two layers of insulation.
Know what I think will be under there in spring?
A SLUG factory! (sigh)