I plan to plant as soon as the snow melts off the beds in my main garden. Going through my seed box, I found corn salad, baby bok choi, and lots of lettuce and carrots. I'll buy some new spinach seed, too. Those will be seeded right away, covered with a row cover, and will begin sprouting as they will over the next couple of months, with some more snow and maybe even rain before spring is official. I'll also start leeks, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and cardoon in the house by Valentine's day. Oh, and I'll start dropping spinach and corn salad seeds in the empty spots in my winter garden (low) tunnel as soon as I get the spinach seed. Um, and there's one last bunch of the fall-sown spinach to pick. I feel a salad coming on. Catherine

Snowdrops in full bloom all over town now. Ginny: Yes...the storm about 2 weeks before was indeed snow...everywhere. But there was a storm between that one and the Bilzzard of 78 which was rain in southern New England. That intervening storm is called the "Great Blizzard of 1978" in the Midwest. The link I provided describes the details. If you look closely at the weather map it shows southern New England in the warm sector---rain. That storm melted a lot of the snow from the 1st blizzard away--even in metro Boston. Most people just don't remember this one because it was rain. But it was a storm of historic magnitude in terms of barometric pressure and snowfall in the Midwest. That intervening storm was a blessing for us because it melted some (or all depending on your location) of the snow from that first blizzard....and then our Blizzard of 1978 happened about 1 week after that! Here is a link that might be useful: Great Blizzard of 1978

10 more containers WS'd today in addition to previous posted (8 + 17 + 46) 71 for grand total of 81 - zone 5

I am finishing with a total of 137 for Zone 6. Brad if you are reading this. I don't know how to send messages to anyone. I would like to know if you want to trade for some Lynchis 'Burning Love'. T's Flower's and Things are sold out of them. I am following you. I don't know how to get around this site.