we usually have to much chance of a late freeze but we usually get our plants, re-pot to larger pots and put in our office (southfacing room with large windows that is usually warmest room in the house due to sunlight) by early-mid Feb. to let them get rooted good, then out to the garden by early-mid March after chance of freeze. We used to wait to even buy our plants until mid March but found by the time they started putting on fruit in June, the ground was getting warm enough they wouldn't produce much until the fall, and then they were very large gangly plants that seemed like a cut-worm magnet.
Tres, your pasta dish looks good!