Our small patch is just breaking ground. But it was under a snow bank until Sunday. Suprisingly, the soil under the snowbank, when it finally melted, is very dry! Still must be lacking in sub-soil moisture, and taking every drop it can get! And the wind howling every day is drying things even more. I hope I can finish tilling my "new" SIB bed area tomorrow( still frost in the ground when I started yesterday!). I'm hoping for a "normal "spring warm-up, 'cause it it turns hot suddenly, all the spring flowers(daffies, tulips, and iris) don't last. With "cooler' weather, the blooms stay at their peak longer....Arlyn