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#springequinox

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Rob Pegoraro

A spring gardening surprise: green leaves instead of green shoots

So much is terrible in the world right now, but at least I’m not looking at lettuce as a grocery line-item expense on the first day of spring. That’s not because I’ve renounced leafy greens as a sandwich fixing, but because the spinach and some of the arugula that I grew from seed in the fall somehow survived winter.

Alongside them in the raised bed outside the back patio, parsley and, even less likely, cilantro have staged their own late-winter resurrections.

I can’t imagine why even the most fault-tolerant of these plants should have done that. This winter, unlike many in recent years, not only had extended hard freezes but multiple snow days that left that bed buried in snow for days at a stretch. Even building a cold frame should have been inadequate.

Having done nothing to prolong those crops, I should have had to start from scratch about two weeks before today, scattering dirt and seeds and looking forward to seeing the first green shoots emerge from the soil later this month.

(To anybody reading this intimidated by the idea of starting a vegetable garden: It’s hard to screw up arugula in the spring, and it’s also hard to find a recipe that can’t be improved with a little of it.)

Instead, after 20 years of having this questionably-productive hobby, I now need to decide if want to dig up some of these survivors to try growing some lettuce to mix things up. And if this means that my long losing streak of trying to cultivate tomatoes might be due for a change in a couple of months. This unearned gardening luck is not much in the larger scheme of things, but I’ll take it.

Spinach leaves gleam with green in the late-afternoon sun on March 17, 2025. Some of these went into a pot of colcannon that evening.
#arugula#cilantro#gardening
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The Duchess of Spring 🌼 🌺 🌷 :verifiedace:

🌷 🌼 🌺 🌹

Today, in the Northern Hemisphere it is the Spring Equinox.
That means the position of the sun is crossing the celestial equator in relation to our planet.

Yesterday was the Spring Equilux which means that day and night were of equal length.
So now the days will gradually become longer until the Summer Solstice.

So, scientifically, it is now spring, despite what the Meh Office said at the beginning of March.
Yay!

Spring is the best season of all AFAIC.
Enjoy nature unfolding back into life, until May when that precocious Duchess of Summer arrives, all hot and moist, encouraging you all to walk around in a state of semi-undress. 😉

#SpringEquinox#Springtime
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Rachel McDove

Spring Equinox ritual this year, creating this little circle as a place to leave offerings, and just sit by. I'll use it til it gets disturbed by deer or whatever.
Just a little meditative space, made from items gathered on the way this morning. (The daffodils were found damaged.)

On the ground is a circle made of small stones and old moss. There are four pine cones at top, bottom and sides. A daffodil lies on either side and there are bits of wood encircling the stones. In the centre is a bit of lichen and a couple of snail shells.
#EarthMagic#SpringEquinox
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