That's not Kale!

Something amazing has happened, and it's not kale.

A couple of weeks ago I posted A short tour of my Intensive Garden Beds. This tour included the following picture, which I naively thought was the Russian Kale I had planted in the spring.

I thought this was Kale! But it's not!

Those of you familiar with Kale and other cool weather greens may have laughed yourselves silly at my simple mistake. I thought that, having planted a particular seed, that seed would grow. What a fool I was!

As it turns out, these beauties have grown even more, become bushy and leafy and I finally had to taste one.

And huzzah! It's SPINACH!

Last year, I let a few of my spinach plants go to seed. Then I just left them, and buried them in mulch over the winter. That's all it took for a whole bed of spinach to bless my garden this spring. Were I the baby-spinach type, I would have been able to enjoy spinach salads even before dandelion salads.

I'm never pulling spinach from the garden again!