gardening at night

my friend, jonna, and i have a plot in a community garden, which is just a few stops away by metro. it's amazing how much green space just appears out of nowhere here in this massive city. i mean, out where our garden is, it feels rural. there are some 500 plots around ours.
so we went out there after school the other day, just as the sun was setting, to set up a compost bin*, plant a few more seedlings and give the plants a nice drink of cool water. (*we had been storing our kitchen scraps in bags in our freezers, which were full to the brim. so we set up a bin by the garden to throw our scraps and cover w/ dirt. hopefully we'll find some red wriggler worms to throw into the party and speed things up a bit.) in our garden, the edamame had started to climb and our leafy greens were just going off. the woman who manages the garden came over while we were working to tell us (in her 99-miles-per-minute korean) that our greens were ready to eat. so before we left, in the dark, we picked a variety of every leafy plant in the garden. it wasn't until i got them home, under some lighting, that i saw just how healthy and gorgeous these greens were. vibrant shades of green and purple. mmmmmmmmmmmm......... nothing better than eating something that you put in the ground and nursed to maturity.