The lettuce lives on

I am happy to report that my vegetable garden did survive the first of 2 cold nights here in Chicagoland. My husband tells me the plants were OK because it was so windy. (huh?) I don't question it, I'm just glad everything is OK. I did spend quite a bit of time picking off flowers from the June bearing strawberries. Since this is their first season in the ground, I was told to remove all the flowers so the plant puts all of its energy into growing strong and not fruit. And so next year's harvest will be plentiful. But it just breaks my heart to do it.

We had another cold night last night without wind, so I will be out later today to check on everything.

Corinne