Proof here:
This is what my backyard looks like after the 16 inches of snow we got on Wednesday. The winds blew that into a 4-ft high drift across the back sidewalk. My back still hurts from digging through it. I felt like a WW I trencher and considered putting in some machine guns and barbed wire.
My response to all this is to annoy Mother Nature. Ha! You can block the sun and freeze my parts off and bury me in snow, but I can get around you! I have electricity and lights and heat mats and my own compost-producing worm army!
So I started some tomatoes in my basement.
Here they are at 4 days:
At 6 days:
And at 7 days (yesterday):
Stop looking at me like that. I KNOW it’s still winter. I know that it’s another 2-3 months before I should start my seedlings for the garden. But these are Tiny Tim Tomatoes. They are a dwarf variety that only grow to 12-18 inches and can survive in a 6-inch pot. And they are bred to grown with less light and cooler temps than most tomatoes need. Worst case I can keep them in the basement under the grow lights. But May is usually pretty nice so I can put them outside and only bring them in if there’s going to be a frost. Besides, look at how cute they are! 
Mike
February 25th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I’ve only started my perennials from seeds. None of my veggies yet.
I’m really tempted to join Seeds of Diversity this year - mostly for the Canadian Tomato project and the Canadian garlic project. I’ve never seen such a huge listing of heritage tomato seeds…
http://seeds.ca/en.php
You need more seeds!
February 27th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Kim,
I haven’t started any of my plants that are going outside. I was just really bored and figured I’d try growing some little tomatoes indoors and see what happens. I could always move them outside eventually.
I’ve heard of Seeds of Diversity. It looks like a great organization. I just received my first Seed Savers (www.seedsavers.org) Yearbook after joining last year. Oh. My. God. Literally thousands of kinds of tomato seeds. 200 pages of listings. I’m completely blown away. I was thinking of doing a blog entry about it soon.
Mike
June 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Mike what are those little pots made of that you are starting seeds in?
June 19th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Becki,
Those are some left-over coconut coir pots that I had from last year. They work pretty good and you’re supposed to be able to just bury them when re-potting, since they’ll break down eventually. They seem to take a LONG time to break down, though.. I didn’t use them so much this year since they are pretty expensive compared with the plastic cell pots.
Mike