Winter letting up some

I was out in the garden today and found my first garlic breaking the ground. It is a variety called Siberian. It is the earliest this season. This is in a bed with a plastic cover to keep snow off bed and warm the soil. The other garlic bed still has 5 inches of snow cover. I also checked out the cabbage bed. I found one small red cabbage that was still firm. I harvested it and we will enjoy it tonight for dinner. :) When the snow melts some more I will look for a savoy cabbage and see if any of them survived the winter. I also have quite a few leeks from last year in another covered bed. Sunday I will go out and sow a few more seedlings in the greenhouse in 68 cell flats. I have a few leeks up now in flats. I will move them out to the hot bed in 3 weeks or so. The cost of heating the hot bed is high so I will keep them in the heated greenhouse as long as possible. By the time the snow is melted off I expect to have many seedlings going ready for transplanting to the garden after the last killing frost.