I'm here, Caroline (jumping up and down and waving arms!). Not as far north as you are, but the Mich. Upper Peninsula is still pretty far up there... I have 12 flats under the lights in my closet (peppers, tomatoes, herbs, petunias, impatiens, etc), plus a flower box of lettuce that I started in early Feb. and 3 flats of onions started from seed out in one of my hoop houses, also protected by some 'floating row cover." Bought some onion sets a couple of days ago that I want to put out ASAP; my asparagus is coming up, about a month early, and is also covered by Reemay over some hoops. Johnny Jump-Ups have been blooming for a while now, and the garlic is about 4 inches tall (also under row cover, planted last fall). Daffodils are also up about 3 inches in my flower garden, along with Centaureus montana and Allium giganteum.
We had a pretty good snowstorm right at the end of February but that melted away pretty fast and it has more or less seemed like spring ever since (which in my mind I know should not be until about May, even though my gut always says March should be spring time...) I have a feeling a lot of people will be planting at least a couple of times this year, the greenhouse owners should be happy about that!
Really dry here right now, so I hope to run my tiller through the garden in the next few days and then probably one more time before serious planting starts. Otherwise, nice to have time to do spring cleanup, there is always plenty of that!
