Frozen Food Aisle

We decided to go ahead and plant a garden this year. I was so excited about it that the day we chose to do it I sat down and mapped out what we would plant and where everything would go. It was even color-coded.

Two weeks ago (which was a week later than last year) we planted all the seeds. Peter and Cooper helped by digging holes and flinging dirt. My brother-in-law was nice enough to help me get all the potatoes, carrots, and marigolds in the ground. I knew it was too early to plant tomatoes, so I waited on those. I was so proud that we had done so much in one day.

We went out the following day and laid the drip lines. I figured that the next thing we needed to do was wait.

And then it snowed.

Multiple times.

I told myself that although plants would have died, the seeds were probably fine. We went out to check on Monday, the fourteen-day mark, to see if we had anything poking through the ground, as the seed packets all assured should happen. Nothing. No peas, no carrots, no edamame. I think we may have had a few weeds growing, but nothing that I wanted to cultivate.

Now I'm thinking that the freeze may have killed everything. And that makes me sad.

Here's my dilemma: how long do I wait to see if anything survived? And if nothing comes up, should I just plant everything again? Or should I try to dig up all the frozen seeds first?

Any help from the gardening gurus out there would be much appreciated.