On Saturday it was 45 degrees and sunny and the apartment was all cleaned and rearranged and ready for the party, so J. and I went outside and remodeled the other hoop house. In November I had planted a bunch of seeds in that one, and then was disappointed with the gaping fronts of the hoop houses in the winter winds. The ground froze, just a little inside, so I gave up and figured I'd do a planting in the early Spring.
Anyway, as we were getting ready to lift the tubing and plastic off of the frame, J. said, "is there something growing in there?" and I poked my head in and...yes! 3 kinds of lettuce and Asian greens and who knows what else (I forget exactly what I planted), tiny sprouts that must have surfaced in the last few days of relatively balmy (30s and 40s) weather. Woohoo!
I returned from a bike ride to Tina's today to see both hoop houses nicely steamy and much better sealed. I'm hoping to see bigger lettuce in one, and a nice environment for my wild-blueberries-from-seed experiment in the other, come March. But first let's see if they make it through tonight's snowstorm.