DELAND, Fla. — Temperatures across Florida are expected to drop Christmas weekend. It's not the holiday gift farmers were hoping for as they worry about saving their crop from freezing. Farmers are using this week to prepare.

Stepping onto The Reid Farm is like walking through the jungle. Unfortunately, some trees in their forest aren’t big fans of frost. Owner Lonny Reid has a lot to do to prepare, and a lot of plants on his mind.

“My mangos, my lychee, longans...” he said, naming a few he’s most concerned about.

In order to keep his fruit trees alive, Reid has been working on chopping wood. He plans to burn fires to try to keep the surrounding air just warm enough to prevent frost.

“I’ll fill [the fires] probably around 1 or 2 a.m., and give them about 3 or 4 hours, [then] come back and fill them again,” said Reid.

He’s also been building new homes for some of his other plants, like his avocado trees. Reid is hoping to put wide-base tents around them to keep them warm.

“If I can create a tent effect over this, all that heat that’s coming out of the earth naturally, especially as it’s freezing cold out, all this heat’s going to come up,” he said. “It will just circulate around in there.”

Currently, his primary focus is on his plants that aren’t fully grown.

“Similar to people, you can’t put a 4-year-old out into the workforce and expect them to thrive. Just like how you can’t put a baby tree out in harsh weather and expect it to make it,” said Reid.

Reid said during last year’s freeze, he was able to save all of his trees. He feels confident he’ll be able to do the same again.