I’m sometimes surprised to see what plants from my fall garden have managed to survive the winter and are surging back to life in spring, often with no help from me. This past winter, I didn’t bother to put a row cover over anything, as I have generally done in recent winters, and therefore wasn’t expecting any early harvest. But this March, in my Roxborough community garden plot, a half dozen long forgotten lettuce stumps sprouted beautiful red rosettes of lettuce leaves, and a patch of cilantro that produced little in the fall was flush with new growth.
