How Plants Grow

I was totally flabbergasted this week by an article in my news feeds. It was a picture of the base/root of a romaine lettuce plant sitting in water, growing new leaves!! The article pointed out that you can keep growing the lettuce this way. I had never seen this nor even imagined it. I was astounded. You know that of COURSE I had to try it myself. Wow. It’s really happening! I was so excited about this and told my son and he was all “oh yeah, I know that”. HOW did he know that???? He doesn’t even eat lettuce, does he???? 🙂 (yeah, he does)

I showed you pictures of my grow-from-seed attempts. I moved them outside about a week ago. Since my husband and I had built the raised bed, I had a perfect place to store them until I was ready to start planting. The sunflowers, tithonia, cosmos and zinnias are doing well and I planted them in some of the pots and directly in the ground. We’ll see how they do but they seemed to be holding their own at last look. The herbs are somewhat “meh”. I don’t expect much from them. I had orange tassel seeds (expensive little things) and they also seem to be struggling now that they are in a pot. I’m waiting for some anise hyssop to arrive before I plant the rest of the zinnias and cosmos in the bed between the sidewalk and the street. I don’t want to have to avoid stepping on them when I get in there to plant the hyssop.

I love how the ferns coming up along the garage in the back of the house look like little aliens. 🙂 The little curled buds look nothing like the fronds they’ll become.

I actually planted 2 orange avens plants in the front last year. I think one got “eaten” by the weeds but one of them fought it’s way out of the greenery and is blooming. And I had absolutely NO recollection of having this gorgeous purple iris. What a happy surprise!!!