Last week I finally went off to the garden, hoe and rake in hand. It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny. A perfect day that certainly didn't need any extras but I got two. Nestled under my budding raspberries I found a red leaf lettuce growing. It is just perfect. I have no idea how it survived the winter or if it just sprouted sometime this spring. It seems very well developed for a sprout. My guess is that it didn't completely die and started growing under the warm sun.
I wandered around the garden with a big smile on my face marvelling over my discovery. I looked down and found a whole batch of sunflower sprouts, about 1 - 2 inches high in a perfect circle. They are growing right in the grass just beside the garden. The remains of an old sunflower head, white and dry, can be seen in between the green fresh seedlings. The sunflower head must be a left over from the "Almost Season". Somehow left behind last November as the cold winds and frost chased me from my beloved garden. Likely it had been covered by leaves, saving it from the human urge to clean up the gardens to make them look decent. I am going to leave them there until they get a little bit bigger then transplant them.
I love Spring surprises.
2 comments:
Lucky you. In Ottawa it went below zero again and so no gardening yet.
Oh, I'm not even close to planting, I'm just mucking around, raking this and that and trying to get the weeds discouraged. I won't be planting till June's full moon, or a couple of days before. We came close to zero a couple of times this week, but not quite.
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