Cool-season crops a good retort to a stubborn winter

It took a late March snowstorm to make me realize that I’m already late on some of my vegetable crops.

Driven inside by another branch-breaking snowfall, I shuffled through my seed stash and came across a collection of Salanova lettuce seeds and sowed a tray of six different varieties. These small heading lettuces do best for me from small transplants, but I’d completely forgotten about starting some inside, something I could have done two or more weeks ago.