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Rob PegoraroA spring gardening surprise: green leaves instead of green shootsSo much is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">terrible</a> 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 <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2015/02/20/lenten-lunch-challenge-crafting-sandwiches-without-cold-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sandwich fixing</a>, but because the spinach and some of the arugula that I grew from seed in the fall somehow survived winter. <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/spring-spinach.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> Alongside them in the <a href="https://www.sunset.com/garden/backyard-projects/ultimate-raised-bed-how-to" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">raised bed</a> 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 <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2020/02/21/this-weak-excuse-for-a-winter/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">many in recent years</a>, not only had extended hard freezes but multiple <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2024/01/19/i-still-like-living-in-a-place-with-distinct-seasons/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">snow days</a> that left that bed buried in snow for days at a stretch. Even <a href="https://www.almanac.com/how-build-cold-frame" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">building a cold frame</a> 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 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/?q=arugula" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">recipe</a> that can’t be improved with a little of it.) Instead, after <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2024/07/20/twenty-years-is-a-long-time-in-one-house/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">20 years</a> 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 <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2024/12/26/2024-gardening-scorecard-abundant-arugula/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">losing streak of trying to cultivate tomatoes</a> 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. <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/arugula/" target="_blank">#arugula</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/cilantro/" target="_blank">#cilantro</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/gardening-2/" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/kitchen-garden/" target="_blank">#kitchenGarden</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/lettuce/" target="_blank">#lettuce</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/march/" target="_blank">#March</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/overwinter/" target="_blank">#overwinter</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/seasons/" target="_blank">#seasons</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/spinach/" target="_blank">#spinach</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/spring-equinox/" target="_blank">#springEquinox</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/thyme/" target="_blank">#thyme</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/vernal-equinox/" target="_blank">#vernalEquinox</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/winter/" target="_blank">#winter</a>

Takako 🐀The latest harvest from my <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/communityGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communityGarden</a> plot. Not a lot, but thankful, especially because the nearby supermarket always out of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/arugula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arugula</a>.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GardenPlot14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardenPlot14</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/growYourOwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#growYourOwn</a>

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