Planting Lettuce"cold hardy short season "Radicchio ...Peas and baby Radishes...

The gardening year has truly begun .  The yellow Daffodils are in full bloom despite the snows

.. the hellebores are LOVING the cold and but brighter  conditions

.. and my soil after years of returning  kitchen scraps is crumbly like chocolate cake ( with TONS of friendly fat worms ) ..I don;t even have to THINK of a shovel anymore .. I can literally plunge my hand in anywhere up to my wrist ... and i just make seeding furrows with my fingers .

The flock of  fat little pea-eating birds is back  too ... needless to say , but their singing is too pretty to shoo them away .. I just put row covers on what I plant so they devote their considerable energies to something else more useful .. like digging up grubs  under the grass.  

Does anyone have any tips  on growing good radiccio and summer lettuces like Romaine ?  The best I've ever done was a few measly little red heads at the very end of the harvesting season .  I really LIKE radicchio and NEED heat resistant letttuces ... thanks ! 

Oh .. and I planted mushroom spores in all my shady areas .. white Criminis , Bellas, Shiitakes ... should be great fun harvesting them after rains .  I used to have a wonderful colony of tasty shiitakes that popped up on cloudy  and wet days ... the best thing about mushrooms is  they give you a harvest FOREVER  unless you reduce their shade .. like I did .. .  They LOVE  areas around rotting wood .. like tree stumps  and the shade under the north side of bushes where you can't image anything would grow .. 

I don't grow any head lettuces.  I do romaine and use the leafs, not waiting for the head, red sails and black seed simpson.  the will all bolt when it gets hot but by then I have other stuff.