Sad Elephant Ears

You can sure tell when you've had the temperature drop into the 20's. Elephant ears can't take below freezing temperature and it only takes a couple of hours of cold air to make the leaves droop badly. Night before last we had our first full night of cold temperatures and the Elephant ear scene that greeting me in the morning was depressing. The plants had gone from lush to wasted in just a few hours. This morning they have lost all of their strength so the leaves are just laying on the ground. Today's chore is to dig up all the Elephant ear bulbs, clean them, dry them and store them in peat moss in the garage for the winter. If they are allowed to freeze they will die.