Longleaf sprouts

Found in the gutter:

Picture of Gretchen Quarterman holding longleaf sprouts at Okra Paradise Farms
by John S. Quarterman, 19 December 2011.

I found them in the gutter while cleaning oak leaves out of it. Longleaf seeds had sprouted in that wet place. Gretchen stuck them in some dirt in these seedling containers. In a week or so we'll need to transplant them into something bigger. Their taproots are already almost as deep as these boxes.

We're also finding quite a few fresh longleaf sprouts in the ground, so apparently we got a pretty good seedfall this year.

-jsq