Well, I’ve finally had it with my car. After replacing the radiator and a bunch of coolant hoses, I now have a coolant leak at the back of the engine somewhere. I love this car but I need a reliable car to get to work every day, so I’ve put it up for sale. 
Hopefully someone who is more mechanically inclined can take care of it.
On the GardenWeb forums I found an heirloom tomato expert in Port Moody. She has a great looking garden and is already harvesting lettuce that she planted in January in her cold frame. Her success has encouraged me to think about how I can get my garden started early next year, or even try to keep it producing year round.
Tracy and I got the planters finished and some of the seeds planted yesterday.
I dug the beds and discovered that the soil at the side of the house is actually quite nice and full of worms. So far we’ve planted onions, carrots, radishes by seed. We’ve also transplanted basil, parsely, rosemary, and savory.
I think I’ll have to redo the frames for the tomatoes and beans because they aren’t very sturdy. I might pick up some electrical conduit from Home Depot to make the frames. Hopefully I’ll be able to clamp them to the sides of the beds.
I’ve also put the beans in the greenhouse and I hope they’ll grow nicely in the milk carton starters until they are ready to transplant.
Some pictures of the seedlings. The basil is doing well, cilantro not so well. The true leaves are starting to form on the lettuce, you can see them in the closeups.
Yesterday was a good day for the garden, two of the lettuce plants started their ‘real’ leaves, and the parsley has started to sprout. 
Sorry Andrea, I didn’t mean to cause you any stress! You probably don’t need any more with the stress of moving in to a new house. I’m just excited that I got started early this year. I have a small greenhouse that I’ll be moving my seedlings to. It’s a big experiment for me right now because I’ve never done this before.
I’m been reading up on Square Foot Gardening and the Three Sisters method of planting so I can’t wait for it to warm up so I can get to work!
I’m going to post some pictures of my seedlings and the planters that I built, and track their progress this year. Right now the progress isn’t very good because I didn’t realize that plants like fluorescent lights instead of incandescent. A bunch of them have grown to about 4″ and then flopped over. Hopefully my next batch will turn out better.