My seeds order is here, so I'm just waiting until the middle of March to start them growing inside.

The Aerogarden seems to be producing less pickable lettuce, and some of it is threatening to bolt, at which point it turns bitter. It is about 14 weeks old and that's probably a reasonable time frame for lettuce grown indoors under the thin-and-return method. The spinach didn't last very long, I think I got 2-3 decent pickings from it. The parsley is still sending up new stems, I've been picking it and taking it over to one of my wife's colleagues, I've got enough dried parsley from the first few pickings to last me a long time and they like to eat it fresh.

I may go ahead and rip one side out in the next week or so and get it ready to replant, then do the other one a few weeks later, so that I've got two sets of crops in slightly different parts of their cycle.

Well, a few days ago it was close to 80 here, and overnight we got 2 inches of snow and lows in the teens.

My father-in-law was trained as a meteorologist by the Army during WWII and used to say if you didn't like the weather in Nebraska, wait an hour.

I got 7 types of tomatoes, 2 types of eggplants and 2 types of melons started indoors earlier this week, I'm going to start a few more of those melons in 2-3 weeks and then probably plant one hill directly outdoors in May, in the hopes of getting melons that don't all ripen at once over about two weeks in August. I'm already seeing some signs of the tomatoes sprouting; I'll probably have cotyledons by next weekend.

I've still got 5 bays open on the seed starter trays, not sure if I'll do anything with them. If I had some fresh seeds I might do some basil, thyme or oregano, but my wife usually buys those from the UNL student plant sale around the end of the semester, along with all the flowers for her patio pots.

I ripped out the left half of the Aerogarden earlier this week, what hadn't bolted fully wasn't producing many edible leaves, and today I started a new lettuce garden, 3 varieties of leaf lettuce plus some more parsley. (Not that we use much parsley, but it is a good spacer and I don't know that we need 24 pods of lettuces, as my wife prefers iceberg lettuce these days and it is too big for an Aerogarden. I might set up a gravel drain system using some plastic tubing, but I think I'll wait until late summer for that. A friend of ours will take all the parsley I can grow, they eat it daily.)

The right garden can probably be picked for another couple of weeks, then I'll rip it out and start something over there, probably more lettuces and maybe some small herbs. (No dill!)