So how well do beets "overwinter" in the soil. Or rather, I am leaving town again till thanksgiving and we are sure to have a kiling frost before I get back. I'm sure we'll have a killing frost within the next month really. Will this killing frost kill all the beets and render them spoiled? The soil probably won't freeze till Dec/Jan since we are close to the coast. Just the cold wet air freezes up all the vegitation pretty early. Or should I just watch the weather from afar and if temps are thought to dip into the 30's, have my little brother go out and begrudgingly pull them all up and toss into a bucket for my mom to process?