November 10, 2014
As I explained last
week, in my attempt to grow tomatoes inside our house this winter, I snipped
the tops out of a couple of our tomato plants a few weeks ago and planted them
in 5-gallon buckets. Well, this week I
noticed an itty-bitty, teensy-weensy tomato on one of the plants. That little girl was definitely not on the
tomato plant when I planted it. So,
although the plants are looking a little worse for being indoors, I’m
considering the appearance of the pencil eraser sized baby tomato a resounding
success!
I’m so optimistic
about the success of the tomato plants that I’ve decided to experiment even
further. (Waaahaaahaaahaaa…I’m thinking
that this might be how Dr. Frankenstein got started with his experiments!) A week or so ago I noticed some volunteer
lettuce growing in our garden. This was
the result of our spring crop of lettuce going to seed. After I had saved some of the lettuce seed
for next year’s crop, I just pulled up the remaining plants and laid them down
where they had grown. I did not expect it
to produce a thick carpet of lettuce, but that’s exactly what happened. The plants are only about an inch tall right
now.
I dug up a clump of
the lettuce and then replanted it in clear containers that I had saved when I
purchased lettuce from the grocery store last winter. I put these containers under grow lights in
Charming’s office (which is rapidly becoming my winter green house). I’m fairly optimistic about the lettuce and
tomatoes. I’m hoping that growing my own
lettuce “in house” (pun intended) will cut down on my fussin’ and cussin’ about
the poor quality of the often-wilted-before-you-get-it-home-lettuce that I have
to buy from the grocery store during the winter months. I can envision it now…Charming and I chomping
on home-grown lettuce and tomatoes in January as the snow blows outside…Wow, it’s
great that I was blessed with a very vivid imagination!
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| It's a girl! (Tomato, that is.) |
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| Volunteer lettuce that was growing thickly in our garden. |
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| Transplanted lettuce seedlings under the grow lights in Charming's office. I will thin them out, if needed, when they get a bit bigger. |
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