Final Composting/First Meal

After a gloomy and quite cool spring morning the sun decided to show and warm the ground a little. I broadcast the rest of the compost and pulled a row of leeks that had (unintentionally) overwintered. Here's the complete composted grow space:

With last year's garden I made the mistake of planting my seedlings much too close, largely forsaking the recommended plant and row spacing for just about everything. Not this year. These leeks struggled under a perpetual zucchini shadow. But once I pulled the zucchini at the end of the season, the leeks kept growing. They even survived two weeks under several inches of snow. I think I'll make my first meal of the year from the garden tonight: leek and herb souffle.