
...and we start all over again. Will planted 13 rows last weekend, and everything is coming up. So it is time to play
"Know Your Teeny Tiny Seedlings".First up;
Beets. You can tell because the stems are red.

Then we have
'some kind of beans'. You know they are beans from the wide flat big leaves. Just so happens these are green beans, but the red beans look much the same.

Next, we have
spinach...yum...

looks a lot like little blades of grass.
Potatoes take a while to come up, but when the do, they have fat little strong stems and relatively small but thick leaves.
Peas are very delicate, with rounded leaves..and are a lighter color of green.

Everything that is not in rows is a vast expanse of cover crop. Clay peas. Any kind of pea or bean can be used as a cover crop...you let them get as big as you like, or until you need the space for something else, then you plow them under. Nitrogen for the soil. There is more, but the sun came over the treeline, so that's all for this morning.

In the meantime, among all the newness of the Fall garden, we have this; an okra pod. Cut down and plowed under, something always survives. There are enough seeds in this old pod, laying at the edge of the field, to plant a whole row of okra. Life goes on.