Johnny Jump Ups

I have Johnny Jump Ups growing in my Vegetable Garden. They surround some carrots I have growing in a raised box. They are easy to grow from seed and such cheerful little flowers. The flowers are edible which makes them a perfect plant to grow in the Vegetable Garden. Pretty and edible.

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a row of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

- From Mosses from an Old Manse, 1854 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne