I must say, it was pretty exciting getting those seeds in the ground and carefully covering them up. You would think we were putting a baby to bed. The next trick is watering the seeds with a fine spray. If you are too forceful, you will create a major flood and the seeds will need a boat to survive. But everyday we would go out to the garden to see if there was anything green peeking through the soil And everyday we were greeted with nothing but brown dirt. Then at last after a couple of weeks we saw just the slightest hint of green where we had planted the spinach. Then after a few more days there were hints of radishes and lettuce. Can you imagine the thrill? It is like giving birth all over again. Wow, look what I created!!! We had visions of fat leafy spinach and radishes the size of baseballs. So, the next anticipation was watching these plants grow. They grew slowly and then just stopped. The radishes were the size of a marble. Have you heard the term, baby spinach? Well, it was baby alright. It took a whole row to make one salad. Oh, yes and the lettuce. Same story as the spinach. But what the heck. Not to be defeated, with the weather past the frost stage, we went on to plant tomatoes, corn, beans, squash and peppers.
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