another literary reference ... to beans!

Just wanted to pass this along: a friend sent this excerpt to me, knowing how excited I am about my garden! (Thanks Dacia!)

"The garden was growing now. In tiny rows of different greens, the radishes, lettuce, onions, were up. The first crumpled leaves of peas were pushing upward. The young tomatoes stood on thin stems, spreading out their first lacy foliage.

. . .

All one hot morning, the beans were popping out of the ground. Grace discovered them and came shrieking with excitement to tell Ma. All that morning she could not be coaxed away from watching them. Up from the bare earth, bean after bean was popping, its stem uncoiling like a steel spring, and up in the sunshine the halves of the split bean still clutched two pale twin-leaves. Every time a bean popped up, Grace squealed again."

"Springtime on the Claim" ~ Pages 15-16
from Little Town on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder