UPDATE: Vancouver b.c. is currently about 4 or 5 degrees colder then the average temperature. The forecast says we will be getting around 0 at night on the weekend. I would like to make note that in some places the defrosted ground turned to mud, others it seemed to hae remained fluffed up and looser. My guess is its related to the amount of moisture in the groundwhen it freezes. Will spend time researching this, possibly there is a way to use this as a winter aeration process, possibly nature already does.

The Farmers Almanac states that the last frost for Vancouver b.c. will be march 28. To be on the safe side i will aim to have things sprouting for the 30th. The Farmers Almanac also states that we should have about 221 growing days this year, which is the longest estimated growing season out of the major cities in Canada this year.

This year i've actually gone out and bought seeds, normally i wouldn't do that but last year i wasn't looked apon to well by everyone by the state of my garden. All my garden beds accept one will remain treated as Permaculture beds. The one is to sandy and i will be ammending it with composted materials.

On Sunday march 9th i will be planting a rows of lettuce. The fallowing week i will plant a second row the normal spacing between rows plus half. As the first row sprouts i will be thinning them out and about 6 inches south (deeper into the shade) of where i removed the young ones from the first row i will plant another row. Hopefully planting in succesion deeper into the shade each time i may be able to pull off having lettuce that doesn't bolt mid summer, if it does oh well i like seeds.