Digging Up Roots With Snow on the Ground

Next week-end starts the beginning of the cool-weather planting season here in Memphis, if the weather cooperates, as next week-end will be one month before the average last frost date. This is my last week-end before the indoor and outdoor planting begins in earnest, with the sunporch turning into a greenhouse and the flats starting to appear outdoors on sunny days for cold-hardening. So I'm digging, and the longer cool snap than usual we had last week means that there is STILL snow in the shade on the bushes and the ground. Wow. Soon I'll be planting outdoors, and losing the winter flab! Woohoo! Ow.