Om a more positive note I have already got my spring garden going with onions, spinach, kale and carrots. Can not wait to plant cilantro, but it is not quite as hardy as some of the other things I like to start early.
Broccoli would be fine but I have to take care to spread out the half bucket of human hair we have saved all winter. (I try to save every hair me hairy family sheds all winter to put it out in the spring to keep rabbits away. It works like a champ. even as well as just shooting them. seriously, they avoid human scents. I feel it is way better than a bullet for each one, besides there are so many.)