spring fever

“Imagine someone my age, with all my years of experience, letting himself get into that kind of water! Spring fever, I guess. I’m always a little batty after lying in the cold mud all winter. The sun made me think I could navigate anything. The river can’t handle all those freshets pouring in. It goes wild. Where is this, anyway? Is there a town here? A post office? Any boats?”

Maybe I have Spring Fever or maybe I am finding inspiration from the extra loud, ever emphatic, impossible to ignore birdsongs I hear from dawn to dusk, but whatever it is, I have plenty in the tank at the end of the day.

“After a long Berlin winter, we are as pale as the spears themselves. But our cheeks are soon pink with spring fever.”

Here are three to help stoke your spring fever.

Many growers catch spring fever and plant an unwieldy amount of salad greens early in the season.