Winter-yuck

I really hate winter. Sorry, but to a Florida raised girl, all this white precip is just-unnatural.the cold hurts. it dries you out. it costs big bucks to keep warm.(even though we have 10 acres of trees and a fireplace-getting around to cutting it depends on the man, I can;t handle the chainsaw. Bad neck-no hand strength. and with this economy, he is working 180 miles from home.)

We have had huge amounts of snow, night temps of 15 degrees -or less. ( this past week things have actually begun to return to normal. 40 degrees in the day, 25 to 30 degrees at night.)

But while we had that horrifically cold weather-we also had 2 feet of snow frozen in place acting as a mulch over the plants and garden beds.

Seems nature has some sort of plan.

I ripped up the tubs in the little greenhouse-even though everything survived, it might not grow well after taking such a beating. I added mineral amendments( which will have several weeks to be incorporated)-and started arugula spinach and lettuce indoors. they are under the grow light now ( the herbs and petunias are sulking about having to sit in the window, but they shouldn;t have to be inside too many more weeks. March 1st is usually warm enough for these things, in the greenhouse) Salads in March ought to be enough reason to do this!( and we plan to put 2 tomatoes in each tub, as well.) the seedlings in the soil blocks look great,I have had to thin them. (hands not so steady I can drop just one seed. so that;s that- I thin,)Asparagus is going and strawberries get started today.

and all of this busywork is just keeping me from starting the onions and peppers too early!