Things are sprouting...

SO excited to see vegetables sprouting! It took the whole 10 days (I was starting to get concerned) but things are definitely coming up.
Two unexpected things...

• weeds--I guess we thought the straw over the beds would elimintate all the weeds but it didn't--there are a ton of these little two leaf things popping up...
• we are growing STRAW! After that huge rain 3 weeks ago, the straw apparently had seeds in it and is now growing!! I think it is either barley, oats, rye....either of the three I would be glad to grow....I am pulling up quite a few of them though because they are too close to the new veggie sprouts but I am trying to leave some too--for the fun of it :) I have since read that if you use straw you should let it sit out and get rained off for a while and then the majority of the seeds will sprout--other people say who cares--it's green manure in your garden and not at all invasive. And I should say the straw has done a very good job of keeping the soil soft and keeping it very moist underneath.

I am finding I need to wait awhile before I start weeding because although I am zealous to get started--I don't really know what I'm doing--I'm taking some guesses at what I think the seeds are but I probably should just wait because for the past two days I've been thinking a weed is the carrot sprouts--but now that I looked up carrot sprout pictures I realize they look more like a grass coming up....hope I didn't pull any of those out!
I can't tell you how much joy it gives me to go into my garden every day and poke around and see what's growing!