Stopped by for a squat-n-peer in my garden after coming home from being out all afternoon. Over the past few days, and most pronounced today, it’s become clear that several plants I thought were complete goners are actually attempting to make a comeback.

For example, the kale stumps like the one shown above are actually attempting to grow new leaves out of the stumps of the old ones. I was ready to pull these guys up after we had to fully cull them due to aphid infestation, but my partner recommending letting it sit to see what happens. Well he was absolutely right. There are five of these little stubs, each of which are regrowing each branch. Color me impressed.

Other plants doing similar things are a spinach I pulled up and replanted in a gross part of the yard I call my “resurrection zone” - an experiment to see if any clearly-dead plants would regrow at a certain point. Turns out, one’s really making a good Christian effort! But it’s getting heavily nommed by bugs so, not sure how that’s gunna work out.

Another is the mystery-broccoliª we found already growing in the yard. We had to strip it down initially as it bolted too soon, though it seems to be assuming this gray weather is fall or spring, so is trying again to grow baby broccolis out of the nooks of each previous stem.

Lastly there’s the pea plantsº. Only a few (the ones which got the most sun) are really still producing fruit, the others have all withered and died. Well, except for one, which must have sensed its impending doom and suddenly started sprouting new stems and leaves out of the pit of a very old leaf (about a foot down from what was the top of the plant I was in the process of cropping off when I found the new growth).