Camera, garden rake, and seeds in hand, I prepared the garden bed for my future salad. Raking & breaking apart manure compost and leaf chunks.
I want to save my own spinach seeds for next year, so I'm planting these heirloom spinach seeds.
Normally you're supposed to plant seeds that aren't old, but I have so many of these 3+ year old seeds, let's see what sprouts.
It's so easy to let hundreds of Romaine lettuce seeds to slip away! But I don't need hundreds, just sprinkle a line of seeds that I can thin through later.
A close-up of all the genetic information that results in one spinach plant!
Spinach seedlings after some spring rains. Need to scratch away the other weed seeds that are trying to sprout too.

