CULT: Thanksgiving seedlings

Hi, all!
A week or so ago, Rusty reported finding seedlings emerging in his garden
and someone suggested that these were probably not seedlings but new
offsets growing from rhizome fragments not cleared out of the bed, because
it's "too late" for seedling germination. That might be the case in Rusty's
case, but it's definitely not the case in mine.

This morning I checked the bed where I planted seeds from a cross of one of
Sharon McAlister's ABs with one of my TBs. I check this bed every Thursday.
Two of our quarterbred seedlings emerged earlier this fall. Since last
Thursday, five seedlings have emerged. One seems to have broken the surface
just yesterday, or perhaps this morning.
Our highs last week were mostly 50s, but we did get into the 70s once.
When I first set out my seeds, M.D. Faith told me to look for seedlings
popping out throughout late summer, fall, winter and into the spring.

So I would suggest, based upon what I know for a fact is happening in my
garden, what M.D. said to expect and what Rusty believes has happened in
his, that one cannot say "seedlings don't emerge in winter" - not in the
South. :-) Our winters come and go, and the fleet chill may linger just
long enough to convince some seeds they've wintered over aplenty when a
little warm spell comes along and asks them out to play.

celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock
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