Winter's last blast?

We are experiencing what I hope is the last blast of winter, although it did not turn out to be as serious as forecast. It looks like the covers will remain on the garden until Saturday morning.

More than 50 beech seedlings are now up. I started to imagine what a chore it will be to trim 200' of twelve foot high hedge and, in my head, am already designing a trimmer on rails to make it manageable.

We harvested our first batch of baby lettuce today along with some lettuce and radicchio that overwintered. It filled one 3.5 quart container.