The 8th of October and the frost has arrived, taking my chard along with quite a bit else. The kale isn’t looking its best either, but it should hold on and keep giving for a few more months yet.

It’s always a bit of a shift, watching the beds go from full and green to this — frost-edged and thinning out. But kale earns its keep this time of year precisely because it doesn’t seem to mind.