In the Garden with Pat Rubin

Bee garden writer Pat Rubin writes about everything that grows, from flowers and trees to vegetables and lawns. Pat volunteered for several years as a Placer County Master Gardener and has written about gardening for many national and regional publications. In addition to gardening, she spends time raising and showing miniature horses and miniature donkeys.

In the Garden will include news, events, advice and other gardening tidbits. Pat will also answer reader questions.

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April 26, 2007

Finally, a bean seed sprouts

Finally it happened! A bean seed is sprouting.

It wasn’t there when I checked the garden last night, but this morning there it was curling out of the ground. Very exciting. I haven’t had a chance to plant the pole bean starts I bought, but will be sure not to disturb this little guy when I do plant them. The weather is much kinder now than it was in March when I planted the first round of seeds seeds, so hopefully there will not be any problems with damping off this time around.

It’s amazingly satisfying to grow vegetables from seed. Just think, you can hold a tiny seed in the palm of your hand, and locked inside that dry, sometimes gnarled, misshapen, beautiful package is life. Just plant, add water, sunshine, and voila! you've got a garden. I shake my head in wonder when I think I could hold an entire vegetable garden in one hand.

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