The season of woo is coming up fast. It’s going to affect your vegetable garden in some unseemly ways. And now is the time to prepare for it.

Some of you, if you were smart, planted a load of cool season vegetables in August or September, and these carrots, cabbages, kales, collards, brussels sprouts and broccoli may well have survived the several nights of 20-degree temperatures so far. The hardiest may even survive into spring.