Its a new year and the garden sleeps.
This winter so far hasn't been horrible for us and in fact it has just been a plain ol' typical winter. The temperature has been only below zero once or twice and there has been pretty steady layer of snow covering the ground for the last couple months (with the exception of the 'January thaw' that we go in December when it all melted). This January lacked the thaw we got last year, which was pretty awesome for anyone with the winter blues.
