man...jonna and i left our garden plot alone for one full week, and what a surprise when we finally made it back out there... our lettuces are becoming trees! everything has a stalk growing out of it and is going to seed. aaah! the head lettuces got completely grown over and they started disintegrating back into the soil to feed the taller, more dominant plants. so much culling, pruning, weeding and EATING to do! among the many happy discoveries that day were oodles of green baby tomatoes, the first little eggplant fruit, gobs of peas, huge beets bursting from the soil, celery going crazy, cilantro and bell peppers finally sprouted, and the tiny herb cuttings that i planted are living large. we have two varieties of mint, lemon thyme, rosemary, chives and french lavender. our tomato and pea plants definitely need some love, as they are now too laden w/ fruit to stay up w/ the support of our current, shoddy staking system.... and we can't eat our greens fast enough! we've had some requests to buy lettuce, so we've now started selling bags of it & we are putting the money toward a garden dinner party....complete w/ juleps &/or mojitos! can't wait!
man...jonna and i left our garden plot alone for one full week, and what a surprise when we finally made it back out there... our lettuces are becoming trees! everything has a stalk growing out of it and is going to seed. aaah! the head lettuces got completely grown over and they started disintegrating back into the soil to feed the taller, more dominant plants. so much culling, pruning, weeding and EATING to do! among the many happy discoveries that day were oodles of green baby tomatoes, the first little eggplant fruit, gobs of peas, huge beets bursting from the soil, celery going crazy, cilantro and bell peppers finally sprouted, and the tiny herb cuttings that i planted are living large. we have two varieties of mint, lemon thyme, rosemary, chives and french lavender. our tomato and pea plants definitely need some love, as they are now too laden w/ fruit to stay up w/ the support of our current, shoddy staking system.... and we can't eat our greens fast enough! we've had some requests to buy lettuce, so we've now started selling bags of it & we are putting the money toward a garden dinner party....complete w/ juleps &/or mojitos! can't wait!
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