Do you get attached to your plants?  I know that people that raise animals to eat have a certain time that the must come to terms with saying good bye to their animal.  I am sure that the time spent with the animal, pig, chicken, cow, goat, or duck, is valued, but they also know that is it part of the life cycle.  I can't understand why I have gotten so attached to my winter/fall garden this year.  I have let it go on a month past the time to pull most of the plants out and replace them with spring plants.  It may be because Jesse has made me so many more areas to plant that I didn't feel as rushed to have the room for spring plants.  It could be that the eggplants I started inside in December to put there did not survive the hardening off.  I will put the eggplants directly in the soil they will probably produce in October.  Anyway I am determined to take at least half of the broccoli, spinach, lettuce, and all the cauliflower plants out today.  But the bees are loving the flowers and seeds are forming.  :)