For starters and in full transparency, I don’t live up North. However, I do watch a lot of homesteading videos about gardening. My favorite female gardener uses this guy to get some of her ideas when she’s trying something different so I check out his channel every now and then. He lives in Michigan and deals with a lot of snow plus he sells packets of seeds. Well, the vlog that showed up in my feed is how to Winter sow your garden. He isn’t fond of starting his seeds indoors and he’s telling how to start your snow-covered garden with direct sowing. IF you have about 10–12 minutes to spare, you might want to check his method out. It’s warm enough here so I can direct sow with only a minimal amount of worry, but his method could possibly have given me another few weeks had I thought about it at the time. Good luck with your planting