Thank you for the suggestion. Can I plant either of these now or is it too late before plants go in?

I have had cabbages, kale, collards and radiccio all winter, uncovered, and mixed lettuce, chard, and spinach under a frost blanket. The spinach is starting to go to seed. I planted them about October, but you can plant the kale and collards now. They will grow slowly until it warms up, then take off. Kale is biennial so you can keep it through summer. Check with your nursery what date to plant snow and English peas...its pretty quick. This is my first year doing a winter garden and I love it! No going out to water, and virtually no bugs. Also have sorrel, parsley, mustard and rosemary. Thyme,sage and oregano are alive, but look ratty. If you are doing just ornamentals a good nursery should have early flowers like poppy,snaps, dianthus,wallflower,bellis,diacia, arctotis, etc.

Interested to hear what people say. I have a hard time with germination and no space for grow lamps. I have a lettuce that withstands the heat well into June if I get it going now, but won't germinate in the extreme heat. Kale produces well until late June last year. I get carrots to germinate by packing the soil down, spreading a layer of seed starter mix, wetting it well, putting down the seed, sprinkling another layer of mix and keeping it lightly sprayed every day. Did then in early September this way and now in May.

Blake, this is broccoli raab, a.k.a. broccoli rabe, a.k.a. rapini, a.k.a. turnip broccoli, and not actual broccoli. The actual broccoli is huge and leafy and glorious, but no sign of heads yet. I think I'll probably try chard next year, to round out my options. I certainly intended to plant spinach this year, but I didn't get to it when I intended, and I'm sure it's too late now. I really wish I'd planted some sort of lettuce! diggingthedirt, yes, the unusually cool Spring hasn't escaped my notice, and I wonder if I'll ever actually see success like this again. It's a big boon for me, though, since I got my cool-weather stuff in a later than I'd intended. I think my tomatoes and squashes are doing OK, though, more or less, and I'm sure their day will come.