It’s too cold!
The last few years here the winters have been mild. This year is still relatively mild. But we’ve gotten more snow than I’ve seen in quite a while. Anecdotally, it feels like the last several winters we’ve gotten snow, then it melts immediately.
But now my crop plan wants me to plant carrots in the first beds in the caterpillar tunnel, and they are frozen solid. Until the lows get back near the freezing point, the soil in there won’t be soft enough to plant in. A plan is just a plan, however. And I anticipated this delay, so everything was planned out two weeks earller than I realistically expected to be able to plant. Now I wait for a thaw in February.