I'm hoping it is! It seems too much to hope for that we'd be so lucky two years in a row, but you never know. Last year our last freezing night was March 7th, which is 3 weeks earlier than our average last frost date down here. We almost never have an early last freeze two years in a row, but it could happen, and I hope it does.

I started seeds of tomatoes and peppers on Super Bowl Sunday, and sprouted pea, spinach and collard green seeds outdoors in this lovely heat over the last couple of weeks. I put the tiny pea plants and collards in the ground over the last couple of days. I had hoped to get spinach plants in the soil yesterday, but had too many distractions, including a fire in our own fire district, so I'm hoping to get the little spinach plants in the ground Thursday if the fires don't start until later in the day here.

I've got early broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower plants in the ground already, and strawberries, lettuce and scallions in containers, but I didn't raise them from seed. I also have a few herbs to put into the soil as soon as the weather stabilizes a bit, and have more radish seed to succession sow each week. I did get some little started clumps of chives transplanted into the ground right before sunset last night. The coyotes were starting to howl just as I was closing up the garden gate and heading for the house. I hope to start my seeds for my main crop of broccoli, cabbage, lettuce and Swiss Chard any day now, and to start seeds of warm season flowers at the same time. With a Red Flag Fire Warning for today, I likely won't be starting seeds today, but there's always tomorrow or the next day.

I don't have much of a Garden To Do list left for this week as I've been out in the garden planting, mulching and weeding (and watering in seedlings as I transplant them) all day every day this week for as many hours a day as I could ignore other stuff that needs to be done. I'd sure like to get the spinach transplants into the ground today, and I still need to get my potatoes planted, which is likely to happen tomorrow or Saturday, as I would like to get them in the ground ahead of the rain that's in our forecast for Sun-Mon. If I get the planting finished before the rain comes, I'll be a happy camper. Our weather here turns back a bit colder next week, so I feel really lucky to have had all this warm, sunny, dry weather to get the first part of the garden off to a great start. Working in 60 and 70 degree weather is so much more pleasant than working in 40 and 50 degree weather.

Everything I have planted so far should be able to withstand whatever cold weather Mother Nature throws at us from this point forward, whether there's only a little cold left, or a lot. It's been so warm that it hardly has felt like winter except in the early morning hours. Not being a winter person, I like that. Our first daffodils bloomed yesterday, and it is fairly early for them to do that here. They usually bloom closer to the end of February. Oddly, the peach trees are trying to bloom and likely will bloom next week if not before, but the plum trees which usually bloom first don't look nearly as far along. I feel like if any of the fruit trees bloom in February, we'll likely lose the crop to a later freeze.