11/01/2016
Growing Lettuce ... From Old Lettuce
I TRIED SOMETHING FROM PINTEREST
IT'S KIND OF WORKING I GUESS
11/1/16 4:30 PM
Before my first plant growing attempts, I had been looking into growing an herb garden, because I had a decent porch at my college apartment (2014ish). I never actually did that - but I saw on Pinterest that you could re-grow lettuce, celery, and some other veggies from the organic ones you bought at the store by placing them in a cup with water, and placing them in the windowsill.
So I tried that. I think it actually had some kind of funky grossness in the water... which was frustrating because I changed it daily. So the lettuce got thrown away.
Present day, I now have three little romaine lettuce babies!! Bwahahaha.
Unfortunately, one of them isn't doing so well... I'm not sure why. But I think that the bottom part got brown, then a leaf turned brown, now the whole thing is dying a bit... these are such intelligent ways of describing this, I know. I'm not an expert, I'm an extreme plant noob. HEH
I wasn't expecting them to grow the way that they are. I mean, I didn't do a lot of research, but in the beginning it looked like they were growing outward and not upward. But right now they have these tall stems. I'm a little nervous because I don't know what to do from here... but I guess I can do some research on how to take care of them.
I'm a bad plant parent!! Bah. At least I'm working on it haha
IT'S KIND OF WORKING I GUESS
11/1/16 4:30 PM
Before my first plant growing attempts, I had been looking into growing an herb garden, because I had a decent porch at my college apartment (2014ish). I never actually did that - but I saw on Pinterest that you could re-grow lettuce, celery, and some other veggies from the organic ones you bought at the store by placing them in a cup with water, and placing them in the windowsill.
So I tried that. I think it actually had some kind of funky grossness in the water... which was frustrating because I changed it daily. So the lettuce got thrown away.
Present day, I now have three little romaine lettuce babies!! Bwahahaha.
Unfortunately, one of them isn't doing so well... I'm not sure why. But I think that the bottom part got brown, then a leaf turned brown, now the whole thing is dying a bit... these are such intelligent ways of describing this, I know. I'm not an expert, I'm an extreme plant noob. HEH
I wasn't expecting them to grow the way that they are. I mean, I didn't do a lot of research, but in the beginning it looked like they were growing outward and not upward. But right now they have these tall stems. I'm a little nervous because I don't know what to do from here... but I guess I can do some research on how to take care of them.
I'm a bad plant parent!! Bah. At least I'm working on it haha
This is Lettuce #1. We'll call him Harrison.
Harrison on the right - he gained a friend! We'll call him June. I'm coming up with the names as I type. Such a good mother. Bwahaha
June and Harrison growing outwards and grew some more leaves.
The third lettuce baby! This one was a little smaller than I meant for it to be (I took the outer leaves off for salad)... but let's say she's a girl. Minnie.
Harrison grew upwards... cool.
And I just took this image!! So now this blog is up to speed with the lettuce. Woot woot! As you can see, Harrison and Minnie are doing pretty well (I think) and June is turning brown... I'll look into why that may be happening. I don't know what to do with the freaky stems. I was not expecting freaky stems.
BONUS! Cat penis cactus (HEHEHEHE) and scooped out sugar baby watermelon. I'll talk more about them in another post (or at least the watermelon).
SO YEAH! I'm really excited because I actually just wrote the intro post and this one about my lettuce :) My next ones coming up will be about the succulents from this summer and some seed stuff I'm getting into.
THE BORING BACKGROUND INFO
FOR WHEN I'M OLD AND I CAN'T REMEMBER
OR WHEN IT'S A YEAR FROM NOW AND I CAN'T REMEMBER
BECAUSE I HAVE A TERRIBLE MEMORY
3:30 PM 11/1/16
First, I have been wanting to start a garden and grow my own vegetables since about 2014.
I had tried to keep houseplants, but they would die pretty quickly. This is my favorite story from the years that I thought I had the anti-green-thumb:
I saw that a lady was selling some pretty neat plants in an antiques store, so I talked to her about which ones were the most hardy. She says to get the Jade plant, "It only needs watering once a week, just a little bit of water, and this one in particular is like 10 years old or something to that effect."
So I brought it home... this super old, beautiful, strong plant... and I killed it. I was a plant murderer.
I think Mom brought it back to life but I'm not sure. I actually searched my Instagram for a photo I posted of it, and I found it (from 131 weeks ago). That caption though.
This summer I was thrilled to try gardening because I would be living with my parents for a few months after I graduated college and they have some space in the backyard for plantventures (I just decided to make this word up). My first veggie attempt ever.
I might attach images later of the progress but I photographed the plants all summer.
For my first ever garden, I grew zucchini squash, cucumbers, in ground tomatoes, upside-down tomatoes, and finally, sugar baby watermelon.
I mainly got cucumbers all summer... and I think the cucumbers bred with the zucchini since I planted them so close together. It was hilarious.
I got one enormous, ridiculous zucchini, and one teeny tiny baby watermelon. The upside down tomatoes were the best at first, but then they died.... I was so sad because they made me so excited. But I read it's because the plants recognize that they're upside-down, something funky happens with the roots, and the nutrients from the soil get washed out basically. The roma tomatoes are actually just now growing, which is funny. It's November 1st in North Carolina! But I waited a long time to plant, so it's exciting that they grew at all.
It was really fun to walk past them every day. I got to see how they were doing and what kind of progress they made. I swear every time I saw a flower, I freaked out haha.
And my dad had a basil plant that I watched grow too! I liked to pretend it was a bit of a loner plant, because it was by itself (...ha).
Anyway... this blog is mostly for me, because I've realized in the last few years that I really like plants, like, more than a lot of people do. I'm not an expert. I'm not even kind of a hobbyist really. I just want to have a record of the plants in my life, and a blog seemed like the best way to do that.
BONUS - wedding photographer Amy Ellis' photos of my succulents at the wedding. The ones that I deem worthy of giving out as favors haha and after they had been pruned blah blah etc
OR WHEN IT'S A YEAR FROM NOW AND I CAN'T REMEMBER
BECAUSE I HAVE A TERRIBLE MEMORY
3:30 PM 11/1/16
First, I have been wanting to start a garden and grow my own vegetables since about 2014.
I had tried to keep houseplants, but they would die pretty quickly. This is my favorite story from the years that I thought I had the anti-green-thumb:
I saw that a lady was selling some pretty neat plants in an antiques store, so I talked to her about which ones were the most hardy. She says to get the Jade plant, "It only needs watering once a week, just a little bit of water, and this one in particular is like 10 years old or something to that effect."
So I brought it home... this super old, beautiful, strong plant... and I killed it. I was a plant murderer.
I think Mom brought it back to life but I'm not sure. I actually searched my Instagram for a photo I posted of it, and I found it (from 131 weeks ago). That caption though.
This summer I was thrilled to try gardening because I would be living with my parents for a few months after I graduated college and they have some space in the backyard for plantventures (I just decided to make this word up). My first veggie attempt ever.
I might attach images later of the progress but I photographed the plants all summer.
For my first ever garden, I grew zucchini squash, cucumbers, in ground tomatoes, upside-down tomatoes, and finally, sugar baby watermelon.
I mainly got cucumbers all summer... and I think the cucumbers bred with the zucchini since I planted them so close together. It was hilarious.
I got one enormous, ridiculous zucchini, and one teeny tiny baby watermelon. The upside down tomatoes were the best at first, but then they died.... I was so sad because they made me so excited. But I read it's because the plants recognize that they're upside-down, something funky happens with the roots, and the nutrients from the soil get washed out basically. The roma tomatoes are actually just now growing, which is funny. It's November 1st in North Carolina! But I waited a long time to plant, so it's exciting that they grew at all.
It was really fun to walk past them every day. I got to see how they were doing and what kind of progress they made. I swear every time I saw a flower, I freaked out haha.
And my dad had a basil plant that I watched grow too! I liked to pretend it was a bit of a loner plant, because it was by itself (...ha).
Anyway... this blog is mostly for me, because I've realized in the last few years that I really like plants, like, more than a lot of people do. I'm not an expert. I'm not even kind of a hobbyist really. I just want to have a record of the plants in my life, and a blog seemed like the best way to do that.
Right after I planted them
After they'd grown a bit
Baby sugar baby watermelon plants
Upside down tomatoes
I cut a path and tree limbs so you could get to this bench, near my plants
Mittens was thrilled
Wedding succulent progress, and the babies that came off of them
THE HUGE ZUCCHINI
Why did I think planting these so close together would be a great plan
I was so proud though
My first garden hahaha. Right out of undergraduate, didn't do almost any research. Just planted some stuff
These plants made me so happy :)
Dad's basil!!
Cutting the poor succulents because they were freaking tall
This is all out of order, but tomatoes again
So, Mom hired someone to power wash our house, and I didn't tell them to watch out for my plants... so they got covered in bleach water. Luckily they survived for the most part
In ground tomatoes. Weirdly, they actually produced sometime in November - since I planted them so late
BONUS - wedding photographer Amy Ellis' photos of my succulents at the wedding. The ones that I deem worthy of giving out as favors haha and after they had been pruned blah blah etc
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