Lettuce is not boring

Good thing I like lettuce, about 100 seeds germinated in 4 days and will be ready to eat all at the same time. Famine, feast, famine. That's how it is in Torrey, when it comes to fresh produce.

These are Romaine lettuce, which is excellent when eaten young (but not this young). I often forget that the oversized stuff you buy in the supermarket has passed its prime flavor by the time it's harvested.

I'll turn this tray around in a couple days so the seedlings will have a fair shake at growing without contrived political leanings. It's only fair.

This tray has parsnips on the left, radishes in the middle and on the right will be Roma tomatoes and peppers. A bit of overwatering has been corrected, and I hope the seeds didn't rot from the excessive moisture. But considering that these "old" seeds even germinated, I would guess they are not susceptible to my poor gardening skills.

Next update: the CARROTS!

Seeds have sprouted - now I get to eat my words

Day 4 into my seed-starting experiment and my snarky comments have already come back to bite me in the ass.

I left Torrey for a weekend of bicycling in Moab and just received a phone call from Bob. He can barely surpress the delight in telling me the seeds have sprouted. All of them. Even the suspicious ones that probably were, indeed, five years old.

Looks like I'll be serving up my bitter words of suspicion and negativity with that salad of Romaine and radishes.

Bob has promised to send photos so I can post them.

Meanwhile, I'm happy to report that today it is Spring in Moab, and it looks like this: