a few frosts ago
I still picked a dozen plus
fresh spinach leaves from the garden
the spinach that I seeded very early in spring
I let flower, then saw it go to seed,
same with the corn salad
next I took a bag sheep manure, covered the works
and over seeded with red clover
and a border with tall growing sweet clover
to block off the bed from wind
so the new fresh spinach came up from below the new green clover
in other words, I did not disturb the soil one bit,
the new clover is doing fine, comes back to life during the sunshine
and until last week I promised to water it with warm water once a week:
as long as the ground is NOT frozen, the roots keep on growing
and there is no snow cover yet
this way, I hope, the undisturbed soil
with this year's roots in it
warms up earlier in spring,
the green clover collects the sunshine
and my nearly sweet spinach is in good company