How wonderful to spend your spare time in the rain than by planting vegetable seed. Starting with the hardy brassicas, such as broccoli, cabbage and bok choys, we then do successional seedings of kales and lettuces before moving to the nightshade family with peppers, tomatoes and chillis We directly plant potato chits, carrots, snow peas and pumpkins and melons

Small spirals of bright red rhubarb tendrils stick out from the top of the pile of soil under the cedar tree and the peach has many more blossoms than it did last year, so that is exciting to see as well.

Although I have been in a state of hibernation since December, and especially with this 'arctic airflow' blasting through our Province,...