Since we blended our entire compost pile from last year into the square foot garden, it’s no surprise that some unkown stuff is starting to sprout. Actually, given the number of eggshells in the compost it’s a surprise that there aren’t baby chicks sprouting.

Sure enough, a few days ago something clearly not a radish was starting to grow in the radish square.  I didn’t know what it was but it was reasonably substantial.  A tight wrinkled cluster of leaves with a strong root.  I thought perhaps it was something like a peach pit or grapefruit seed that had started to sprout.  I snipped it off and left it at that.

The potatoes have started to sprout as well.  Now I’ve had fresh dug potatoes and to be honest potatoes are one of those things where the store bought stuff is as good as anything you can grow yourself.  I planted for no other reason than to show the kids how to cut a seed potato.

So I was out looking at the potato sprouts, had a look at the radishes and the plant I’d snipped was back.  And I realized what it was.  It’s a potato plant in with the radishes.  And not one we’ve planted either.  It’s a potato plant out of the compost that’s taken root and is sprouting.  We’re going to have two kinds of potatoes now :).

Radishes are growing intermittently.  They’re not nearly as dense as I expected.  Perhaps we planted them too deep.  And the carrots haven’t sprouted at all.  I’ll give them another few days, then we’ll replant some more radishes and the carrots if we don’t see any more action.