Spring !

Yea, Spring ! Just when all outdoor plant life looks really, really dead and gone, trees start to flower and bud out, Spring bulbs begin to nose out of the Earth...and suddenly.... Winter is over. Not that we had a hard Winter. Just the lack of green, growing plant-life brings me down after awhile. Houseplants help for sure, and the Dwarf Banana tree ( now a small grove ! )that shares our bedroom for six months out of the year has a definite living, breathing presence of its own. But watching the return of the mighty Hostas and Bleeding Hearts always seems incredible...so delicate looking, yet there they were, frozen root clumps for a good part of the year. Actually, frozen and defrosted several times over.
Yesterday I sowed some seeds out in the Fenced Garden, in a bed I prepared several months ago with some veganic plant food from Garden's Alive, some kelp meal and compost from our own heap. I sowed Red Cloud Beets, Short 'n Sweet Carrots, and Osaka Purple Mustard Greens. Garlic is coming up where J planted some out last October....or was it early November ? The weeds will be starting their race any day...some have already begun, but not in earnest yet.
Yellow Goatsbeard seeds got planted in a flat of seed-starting mix. I harvested the seeds from a crazy-looking seedhead down the road. I think S helped me collect the seeds. We'll see how they do...I kept the seeds in a closely closed baggie in a laundryroom cabinet all Winter.