Taking a closer look

  Our sweet neighbor approached me last week and said, "Do you know what you have growing in your backyard?"


Now our back yard has not been seeded or landscaped at all, so we rarely go back there, but before we moved in there were three or four fruit trees, grapevines, horseradish, rubarb, gooseberries and more flourishing on the empty lot. Moving our house onto the property disturbed quite a few living plants, however our wild asparagus survived. My neighbor showed me that tucked in the patch of dirt in the photo is a whole colony of delicious sweet wild asparagus. Yippeeee!
 


I have picked about 30 stalks so far and there are a dozen more coming up. They never made it to the saute pan or steaming pot. They are just too juicy and sweet to cook. We have been eating them fresh every few days.
  Spring is soo much fun.