Fresh Spinach

Last spring we built a couple of raised bed boxes on the south side of the house to provide an early season planting space for greens before the main garden dried out enough to till.  One of them became the perennial herb garden but the other spent the season planted to lettuce and spinach.  At the end of the summer we planted half of a box to spinach in the hope that it would winter over.

The spinach sprouted and grew some through the fall, then hunkered down for the winter, but has been growing again since the turn of the solstice and lengthening of the days.  Today, we picked a colander full of fresh spinach which we will use to top dress a stir fry for dinner tonight.  It's delicious.

No question about it:  this is the earliest we have ever had fresh produce form the garden.  Next year, the whole box!  In the meantime, let the season begin!