It is on a floodplain which was underwater during Hurricane Floyd a few years ago, so the city will not let homes be built there. (You can see the spaces in the curb where the driveways were supposed to be.) Anyway, it is $40/year for a full plot, $20 for a half plot. This year I'm just doing a half plot. In this part of North Carolina, frost only comes for a day or two at a time, and then we get a warm spell. I think we've had over 14 total days above 60 degrees this winter, and maybe almost that many with frost.
Today, after the frost melted, I went out to get my planting started, since it is not too early for certain cool season crops. I use raised beds, so the first task was to pile the soil into the beds with the hoe. I got my onion sets in, seeding carrots into one onion row, cornsalad into the other. Of course, I bedded the rows so high, the onions, even full sized, will not reach normal ground level.
Spring break is next week, but I'm too poor to go anywhere, so I expect to get a lot done on the garden then. I will be planting "seven-top" turnip (a kind that makes only tops, no turnip root), golden beet, and will be experimentally trying lentils. Later on I will get into the warm-season crops.
As much as I pull and dig, it always just seems to come back renewed; the best I seem to be able to do is yank it before it seeds itself.